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Gastrolobium papilio (Crisp) G.Chandler & Crisp

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 15:698 (2002)
Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Tangled, clumped shrub, to 1.5 m high. Fl. cream-red, Oct to Dec. Sandy clay over ironstone and laterite. Flat plains.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 11 February 2004
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Scientific Description

Shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, continuous with stem, 6-10 mm long, 12-30 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, 3-6 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 4-5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 11-12.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 18-20 mm long, uniformly coloured, red; claws absent; standard 11-14 mm long, glabrous, auriculate, wings 16-17 mm long, auriculate, keel 17-18 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 1-1.2 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 13-17 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 17-18 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 October, November and December. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions. Conservation Code Threatened (T).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Busselton.