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Gastrolobium punctatum (Turcz.) G.Chandler & Crisp

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 15:585 (2002)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Small, compact shrub, to 1 m high. Fl. yellow&brown, Sep to Oct. Yellow-grey sand & sandy loam, brown gravelly clay, laterite, gravel. Slopes and hills.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 11 February 2004
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Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, whorled, continuous with stem, 5-11 mm long, 1-1.6 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules apparently absent even from the youngest leaves. Pedicel present, 2 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 5.7-6.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 9-10 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or brown, with some yellow or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 9-9.5 mm long, glabrous, auriculate, wings 7.7-8 mm long, auriculate, keel 7-7.5 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.7-0.8 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 6-7 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 7-8 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, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in September and October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Broomehill-Tambellup, Dumbleyung, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Kent, Lake Grace, Narrogin, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe.