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Gastrolobium velutinum Lindl.
Stirling Range Poison

Reference
Paxton, Paxton's Fl.Gard. 3:76 (1853)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Low, bushy shrub, to 1 m high. Fl. orange & yellow & pink, Aug to Oct. Clay-loam or sandy clay. Slight mountain slopes, flats, seasonally inundated depressions.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 9 December 2003

Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite or whorled, not continuous with stem, 9-15 mm long, 4-6.3 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 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 2.8 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 4.5-5.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribbed; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 10-10.5 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, pink or orange, with some yellow, pink or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 9-9.5 mm long, glabrous, auriculate, wings 6-8 mm long, auriculate, keel 6-7 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.4-0.5 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4.5-5 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 5.6-6.5 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 August, September and October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Katanning, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Cranbrook, Gnowangerup, Plantagenet.