Gastrolobium acrocaroli G.Chandler & Crisp

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, spiny at least in part, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, continuous with stem, 30-70 mm long, 3-5 mm wide, glabrous, flat with recurved margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 1(-1.5) mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 4-4.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 7.5-8.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 14-15.5 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or orange, with some yellow or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 10-14.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 11-13 mm long, auriculate, keel 12.5-14 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), 11-12.5 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 12.4-13 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 April, September, October and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Mallee IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Two (P2).