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Gastrolobium nutans G.Chandler & Crisp

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 15:661 (2002)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, bushy shrub, to 1.5 m high. Fl. orange&yellow&red&pink&purple, Aug to Oct. Deep white or grey sand. Undulating dunes.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 9 December 2003

Scientific Description

Shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite or whorled, continuous with stem, 15-25 mm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, revolute; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 1-1.3 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 1-2 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 4 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 6-7 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, pink, orange or purple, with some yellow, pink, orange or purple spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 6-7 mm long, glabrous, auriculate, wings 5-6 mm long, auriculate, keel 5-6 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.3-0.5 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 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 6-7 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in August, September and October. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Coolgardie, Avon Wheatbelt, Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Merredin, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Esperance, Kondinin, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe, Yilgarn.