Gastrolobium coriaceum (Sm.) G.Chandler & Crisp

Scientific Description

Erect or prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, continuous with stem, 16-60 mm long, 6-30 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 3-7.5 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 3-35 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 4.5-7 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 10-13.5 mm long, uniformly coloured, orange; claws absent; standard 10-12 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 10-11.5 mm long, auriculate, keel 9.5-11 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.7-1 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 9-14 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 9-12.2 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, hairy, not beaked. Flowers in September and October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest, Warren and Esperance IBRA regions.