Gastrolobium floribundum S.Moore
Wodjil Poison

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete or angular, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, continuous with stem, 25-70 mm long, 5-10 mm wide, glabrous, flat with incurved margins (conduplicate); margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Pedicel present, 2-3 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 5-6 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 10-11 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or orange, with some yellow, red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 10-11 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 7-8.5 mm long, auriculate, keel 6-8 mm long, not beaked, auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5-0.8 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short), 4-5 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 5-5.5 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 August, September, October and November. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Yalgoo, Coolgardie, Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Mallee IBRA regions.