Gompholobium gairdnerianum Chappill

Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, whorled, not continuous with stem, 10-23 mm long, 4-8 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 3.2-4.5 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 5-9 mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles present and persistent, 4-5 mm long, glabrous, not striate. Calyx 9.5-14 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 10-20 mm long, uniformly coloured, yellow; claws present; standard 10-19.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 9.5-18.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 10-13.8 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 1-1.8 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 9.5-13 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 11-12 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 12-14 mm long, 6-11 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, glabrous, not beaked. Flowers in September, October and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Geraldton Sandplains IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Three (P3).