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Gastrolobium crispatum G.Chandler & Crisp

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 15:681-682 (2002)
Conservation Code
Priority One
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Tall shrub, to 2.5 m high. Fl. yellow&orange&red, Sep to Oct. Yellow or brown sandy loam, red laterite soils. Steep gullies, slopes, ridges, breakaways.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 11 February 2004
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Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems angular, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite or whorled, not continuous with stem, 20-50 mm long, 12-25 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 4.5-5.7 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 1.7-2 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 5-5.2 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 10-10.5 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or orange, with some yellow, red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 9.5-10 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 7.5-8 mm long, not auriculate, keel 8-9 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.4-0.7 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 5.5-8.5 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 8.7-10 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, October and November. Conservation Code Priority One (P1).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Northern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Chittering.