Gastrolobium glabratum G.Chandler & Crisp

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems angular, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, continuous with stem, 5-46 mm long, 10-27 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 5.5-7.5 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 0.5-2.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 5.2-7.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7.5-9.2 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or orange, with some yellow, red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 7.5-9 mm long, glabrous, auriculate, wings 5.2-8.7 mm long, auriculate, keel 5.5-9 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5-0.7 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4.5-8.7 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 6.2-9 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 Jarrah Forest IBRA regions.