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Gastrolobium cruciatum G.Chandler & Crisp

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 15:685 (2002)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Spreading shrub, to 0.5 m high. Fl. yellow&red, Sep. Sand & clayey sand with gravel, rocky loams, laterite. Flats, gently undulating areas.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 11 February 2004

Scientific Description

Shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, continuous with stem, 3-5.5 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, hairy or glabrous, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Pedicel present, 1.7-3 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 4-5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 8-10 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or red, with some yellow or red spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 7.5-10 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5.5-7 mm long, not auriculate, keel 5.6-8.2 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.6-0.7 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4-6 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 6.2-9 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 Jarrah Forest IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Three (P3).

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

Distribution

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