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Gastrolobium venulosum G.Chandler & Crisp

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 15:700-701 (2002)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub, to 0.5 m high. Sandy clay, quartz and laterite gravel. Flats, undulating sites.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 22 November 2001

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, continuous with stem, 15-30 mm long, 5-9 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Pedicel present, 2.5-3 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 5-5.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 9-11.5 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or orange, with some yellow, red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws absent; standard 9-10.5 mm long, glabrous, auriculate, wings 5-5.5 mm long, auriculate, keel 6-7 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 3.5-3.7 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 7-7.3 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 July, August and September. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Jerramungup, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe.