Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Gompholobium huegelii

Flower and leaves (inland form). Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve, ACT

Flowers and leaves (inland form). Photographer Don Wood, Aranda Bushland, Canberra

Flowers and leaves (coastal form). Photographer Don Wood, Ben Boyd National Park south of Eden

Common name

Pale wedge-pea

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, heath, roadsides, and moist sites. Widespread.

Notes

Shrub to 1.5 m tall or sprawling. Branchlets cylindrical, with faint ribs, hairless to sparsely hairy, warty between the ribs. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 0.4-2 cm long, 0.4-2 mm wide, hairless,yellow-green, tips more or less pointed with a minute, often curved point, margins rolled down. Flowers 12-25 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Standard petal cream or yellow on the front, grey or brown on the back, wings cream to yellow, keel yellowish green, densely fringed on the margins with hairs ≤ 0.5 mm long. Flowers in one to few-flowered clusters. Flowers most of the year.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gompholobium~huegelii (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): 145-146