Gastrolobium linearifolium G.Chandler & Crisp

Scientific Description

Twining or climbing plants, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, continuous with stem, 25-55 mm long, 3-7 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 5.4-6 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 6-8 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 7-10 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 11-14 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red, orange or purple, with some yellow, red, orange or purple spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 10-13 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 8-12 mm long, not auriculate, keel 9-10 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 1-1.1 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 8.2-12 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 13-14.5 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 August, September and October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Geraldton Sandplains, Avon Wheatbelt and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.