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Gastrolobium wonganense G.Chandler & Crisp

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Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Not Current

Dense, spreading shrub, to 0.7 m high. Fl. yellow-orange, Sep to Oct. Clay loam over laterite. Rises in open mallee woodland.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 9 October 2003

Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, 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, 13-25 mm long, 18-35 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins dentate; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 1-2 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 3-4 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 5-5.6 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7.5-9 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or orange, with some yellow or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 7-7.8 mm long, glabrous, auriculate, wings 6.2-6.5 mm long, auriculate, keel 7.5-7.8 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.7-0.9 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4.5-5.5 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 7.5-8 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 September and October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Two (P2).