Gastrolobium reflexum G.Chandler & Crisp

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems angular, spiny at least in part, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, continuous with stem, 10-32 mm long, 3-15 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 3(-5) mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 3.5-4 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 8.2-11 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 15-17 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or orange, with some yellow, red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 14.5-15 mm long, glabrous, auriculate, wings 12-14 mm long, auriculate, keel 12-14 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 1.3-1.4 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 8-12 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 14.5-15 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, not beaked. Flowers in September, October, November and December. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Geraldton Sandplains and Avon Wheatbelt IBRA regions.