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Gastrolobium vestitum (Domin) G.Chandler & Crisp

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 15:691 (2002)
Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, arborescent shrub, to 3 m high. Fl. orange&red, Oct. Skeletal soils. Mountain slopes and summits.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 11 February 2004

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, continuous with stem, 25-70 mm long, 15-40 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 7-10 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 4-7.2 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 12-14 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 15-17 mm long, multicoloured, mostly red or orange, with some red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 11.5-15.2 mm long, glabrous, auriculate, wings 14-15 mm long, auriculate, keel 14-15 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 1-1.2 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 14-16 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 15-16 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 10 mm long, 8 mm wide, stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Esperance IBRA regions. Conservation Code Threatened (T).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 24 October 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Corrigin, Gnowangerup, Plantagenet.