Gastrolobium formosum (Lindl.) G.Chandler & Crisp

Scientific Description

Erect or twining or climbing plants. Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, continuous with stem, 10-60 mm long, 8-22 mm wide, hairy, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 4-6.5 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 2-2.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 12-20 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 15-20 mm long, uniformly coloured, red; claws absent, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 11.2-11.6 mm long, not auriculate, keel 12.5-15.5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.9-1 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 11-13 mm long. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, not beaked. Flowers in November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest and Warren IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Three (P3).