Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Gompholobium glabratum

Flower and leaves. Photographer John Tann, Royal National Park, Sydney

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Jervis Bay National Park, NSW 

Pods and leaves. Photographer John Tann, Royal National Park, Sydney

Common name

Dainty wedge pea

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest and heath. Coast, ranges, and the eastern part of the tablelands.

Notes

Shrub to 0.4 m tall, or sprawling to prostrate. Branchlets cylindrical or angular, with or without faint ribs, often sparsely hairy, densely warty. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3-7 leaflets, each 0.23-1.5 cm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, hairless, olive-green, grey-green, or yellow-green, tips straight or curved, and pointed to blunt, with a minute point, margins rolled or curved down, surfaces more or less hairless. Flowers 8-10 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, in clusters of 1-3. The front of the standard petal and the wings are yellow green to yellow, the back of the standard petal sometimes dark grey or with grey markings, and the keel dark brown to dark greenish grey. Flowers Winter to Spring.

Rare Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gompholobium~glabratum (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): 133-136