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Gastrolobium brevipes Crisp

Reference
Kew Bull. 38:11-12 (1983)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect shrub, to 2.5 m high. Fl. orange & red, Apr to Sep. Sandy gravelly or rocky soils. Dry watercourses, mountain slopes.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 27 October 2003

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite or alternate, continuous with stem, 25-50 mm long, 7-14 mm wide, hairy or glabrous, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 3.3 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 4-7 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 7-8 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 13-15.5 mm long, multicoloured, mostly red or orange, with some red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 13-13.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 12-12.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 11-13.5 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 1-1.6 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short), 12-14 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 11-14 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, bearded (with a tuft of hairs at apex), terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, not beaked. Flowers in April, May, June, July, August and September. Occurs in the Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Great Victorian Desert and Central Kimberley IBRA regions.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Central Ranges, Great Victoria Desert.
IBRA Subregions
Mann-Musgrave Block, Shield.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Menzies, Ngaanyatjarraku.