Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Gompholobium inconspicuum
Common name
Creeping wedge-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and shrubland, often in rocky areas. Ranges and tablelands. Coastal north from Mogo.
Notes
Prostrate or sprawling shrub to 0.5m tall. Branchlets cylindrical, hairless to sparsely hairy, densely warty. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 0.3-1 cm long, 0.4-1 mm wide, tips more or less pointed with a minute, curved point, margins curved to rolled down, surfaces dull green or grey-green to reddish, hairless or with scattered hairs. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel Standard petal 7.6-8.6 mm long, 8-12 mm wide, yellow on the front, grey on the back, wings yellow, keel green to grey-green. Flowers in clusters of 1-3 flowers. Flowers Winter to Spring.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gompholobium~inconspicuum (accessed 12 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): 136-139
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