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Gastrolobium elegans G.Chandler & Crisp

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 15:704 (2002)
Conservation Code
Priority Two
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, slender shrub, to 3 m high. Fl. yellow&orange&red&pink, Sep to Oct. Skeletal stony quartz. Hillsides.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 11 February 2004

Scientific Description

Erect or prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, not continuous with stem, 35-75 mm long, 5-25 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins or flat with recurved margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 7.4-8.5 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 2.3-2.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 8-9 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 12-14 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or orange, with some yellow or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws absent; standard 12-13 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 12-13 mm long, not auriculate, keel 11-12.3 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), 9.5-12 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 10-13 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 and October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest and Esperance IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Two (P2).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Cranbrook.