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Gastrolobium tomentosum C.A.Gardner
Woolly Poison

Reference
W.Austral.Naturalist 4:186 (1955)
Conservation Code
Priority Four
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Weak, decumbent, often clumped shrub, to 1 m high. Fl. orange & purple & red, Aug to Nov. Gravelly loam or clay, sometimes over sandier substrates. Hills, roadverges.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 27 October 2003
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Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems angular, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, continuous with stem, 10-35 mm long, 10-25 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, 6.5 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 1.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 4-5.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7.8-10 mm long, multicoloured, mostly red, orange or purple, with some red, orange or purple spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 8-8.6 mm long, glabrous, auriculate, wings 7-8 mm long, auriculate, keel 7-8 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.6-0.8 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 5.5-7.5 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 8-8.5 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 7-7.5 mm long, 3.5-4.2 mm wide, stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in August, September, October and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt and Jarrah Forest IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Four (P4).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Boyup Brook, Kojonup, Narrogin, West Arthur, Williams.