Gompholobium burtonioides Meisn.

Scientific Description

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, not continuous with stem, 7-14 mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, strongly recurved, appearing terete but with one or two grooves below; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Pedicel present, 4.5-6 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent. Calyx 8-13 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 11-14 mm long, uniformly coloured, yellow; claws present; standard 11-13 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 9-12 mm long, not auriculate, keel 9-10.2 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, hairy at least in part. Stamens ten; anthers 0.7-1.3 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 7-11 mm long. Ovary glabrous; style 7.2-10 mm long glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, not beaked. Flowers in September, October, November and December. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions.