Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Gompholobium aspalathoides

Common name

A wedge pea

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, and heath. Mainly in the ranges north from west of Tuross Head. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m tall. Branchlets cylindrical, with faint ribs, hairless to slightly hairy, warty between the ribs. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 0.9-1.7 cm long, 0.6-0.8 mm wide, hairless, yellow-green or olive-green above, fawn below, tips curved, and blunt or squared off. Flowers 12-20 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, mostly yellow, in clusters of 1-5. Standard petal grey on the back, keel cream with a green tip, sometimes fringed with minute hairs. Flowers most of the year.

PlantNET description with photo:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gompholobium~aspalathoides (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): 131-133