Gompholobium baxteri Benth.

Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, whorled, not continuous with stem, 4-8 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, glabrous, terete; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 1.5-2 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 2-2.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent. Calyx 8-10 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 9-14 mm long, uniformly coloured, yellow; claws present; standard 8.5-11.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 7-8.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 9-10.5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, hairy at least in part. Stamens ten; anthers 1.1-1.3 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 3.5-5.2 mm long. Ovary glabrous; style 5-9 mm long glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, not beaked. Flowers in August, September, October, November and December. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Coolgardie, Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions.