Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Gompholobium grandiflorum

Common name

Large wedge-pea

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest and heath. Coast, ranges, and the eastern tablelands, north of the Kings Highway.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m tall. Leaves with sharp tips. Branchlets angular, faintly ribbed, hairless to sparsely hairy, often warty. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 1.1-3.3 cm long, 0.5-1.6 mm wide, hairless, grey-green, margins curved to rolled down, tips straight, sharp. Flowers 15-25 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Standard petal yellow on the front, the back grey, wings yellow, keel grey-green to green, minutely fringed in part. Flowers single or in few-flowered clusters. Flowers most of the year.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gompholobium~grandiflorum (accessed 22 January, 2021)

The description above is largely based on:  Chappill, J.A., Wilkins, C.F. & Crisp, M.D., (2008) Taxonomic revision of Gompholobium (Leguminosae: Mirbelieae). Australian Systematic Botany 21(2): 142-143