Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Gompholobium uncinatum
Common name
Red wedge pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and heath, on sandstone or granite. Blue Mountains and nearby.
Notes
Shrub to about 0.9 m high, or sprawling. Stems hairless or sparsely hairy, densely warty. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets each 0.25–1.2 cm long, less than 1 mm wide, hairless, yellow-green, dull slaty-green, grey-green, or green, to purplish or reddish, tips blunt, straight or curved down, with or without a minute point, margins curved to rolled down. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, 7–12 mm long, bright red to orange-red, often with yellow-green or white markings. Flowers single or a few together. Flowers Spring to Summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gompholobium~uncinatum (accessed 22 January, 2021)
The description above is partly based on: Chappill, J.A., Wilkins, C.F. & Crisp, M.D., (2008) Taxonomic revision of Gompholobium (Leguminosae: Mirbelieae). Australian Systematic Botany 21(2): 136
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