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Gastrolobium mondurup G.Chandler & Crisp

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 15:690 (2002)
Conservation Code
Priority Two
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect shrub, to 3 m high. Fl. red, Sep. Skeletal sandy soils. Mountain peaks.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 11 February 2004

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems angular, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, continuous with stem, 35-65 mm long, 15-25 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. Pedicel present, 3-3.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 11-12 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 20-22.5 mm long, uniformly coloured, red; claws present; standard 18-19 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 19.5-23 mm long, not auriculate, keel 22 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 1.1-1.2 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 20-23 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 17.5-23 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. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Esperance IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Two (P2).

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

Distribution

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