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Gastrolobium sp. East Peak (E.D. Middleton EDM 43)

Conservation Code
Priority Two
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub, 3-4 m high. Grey sand over granite.

Helen Coleman, Descriptive Catalogue, 15 October 1998

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, not continuous with stem, 10-37 mm long, 5-15 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. Pedicel present, 3-3.3 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 4.2-4.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 10-12 mm long; claws absent; standard 9-10.2 mm long, glabrous, auriculate, wings 9-9.2 mm long, auriculate, keel 9.5-9.6 mm long, not beaked, not 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), 8-9 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 10.5-11.7 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 October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest and Warren IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Two (P2).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Manjimup, Plantagenet.