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Gastrolobium crenulatum Turcz.

Reference
Bull.Soc.Imp.Naturalistes Moscou 26:273 (1853)
Conservation Code
Priority Two
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect shrub, to 1.2 m high. Fl. yellow&red, Sep to Nov. Skeletal sediment. Mountain slopes.

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, whorled, continuous with stem, 15-35 mm long, 8-30 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 2-3 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 6-7 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 9-11 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or red, with some yellow or red spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 8-10 mm long, glabrous, auriculate, wings 8.2-85 mm long, not auriculate, keel 7.5-8 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), 6-7 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 7-8.5 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 September, October and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Two (P2).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Cranbrook, Gnowangerup, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe.