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Gastrolobium stipulare Meisn.

Reference
Lehm., Pl.Preiss. [J.G.C.Lehmann] 2:218 (1848)
Conservation Code
Priority Four
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, leafy shrub, to 0.5 m high. Fl. yellow&red&brown, Sep. Yellow-grey sand, gravelly clay loam, laterite. Slopes, ridges.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 11 February 2004

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, not continuous with stem, 8.5-25 mm long, 1.2-1.5 mm wide, strongly recurved, appearing terete but with one or two grooves below; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 7-8 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 1.2-2 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 5.6-6 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 9-11.5 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or brown, with some yellow, red or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws absent; standard 8.7-10.5 mm long, glabrous, auriculate, wings 7-9.8 mm long, auriculate, keel 9.5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.6-0.7 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4-6.5 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 7-7.5 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 September. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt and Jarrah Forest IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Four (P4).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Brookton, Cuballing, Narrogin, Pingelly, Wagin, Williams.