Gastrolobium capitatum (Benth.) G.Chandler & Crisp
Bacon and Eggs

Scientific Description

Twining or climbing plants, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite or alternate, continuous with stem, 22-75 mm long, 4-14 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 4-4.5 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 2.5-3.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 6-7 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 10-15 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or orange, with some yellow or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 10.5-13 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 8.5-11.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 10-11 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.8-1 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base). Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 8-11.5 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 June, July, August and September. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Geraldton Sandplains, Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Warren and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.