Gastrolobium minus (Crisp) G.Chandler & Crisp

Scientific Description

Twining or climbing plants. Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, continuous with stem, 25-65 mm long, 12-35 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 5-9 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 2.2-3.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 9.5-11 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 17.5-21 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or white, with some yellow, red or white spots, streaks or blotches; claws absent; standard 14.5-16.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 16-16.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 16.5-17.6 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 1-1.3 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 12.5-17 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 14.5-16 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 July, August, September and October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Esperance IBRA regions.