Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Gompholobium grandiflorum

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Nowra

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Moss Vale

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