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Gastrolobium cyanophyllum G.Chandler & Crisp

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 15:703 (2002)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Spreading shrub, to 0.8 m high. Fl. orange, Sep to Nov. Yellow-brown sand over laterite. Undulating landscapes.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 11 February 2004

Scientific Description

Shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, continuous with stem, 20-30 mm long, 9-15 mm wide, glabrous, flat with recurved margins or flat with incurved margins (conduplicate); margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 4.5-8 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 1-1.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 4-6 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7-10.5 mm long, uniformly coloured, orange; claws absent; standard 9-10 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 7.3-8 mm long, not auriculate, keel 8-8.5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.3-0.5 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 6-7.5 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 8.5-9 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 Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Esperance IBRA regions.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Moora, Northam, Quairading, Ravensthorpe, York.