Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Gompholobium latifolium

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra

Flower. Photographer Steve Burrows, Bournda National Park

Line drawings. b. flowering and fruiting branch with leaflet transverse section. M Moir, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Golden glory pea, Giant wedge-pea

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

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

Notes

Shrub to 3 m tall. Branchlets slightly flattened, ribbed, hairless or sparsely hairy, warty or smooth. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, comprised of 3 leaflets, each 1.4-5 cm long, 1-6 mm wide, hairless or sparsely hairy, glaucous or not glaucous, olive-green above, beige-green below, margins curved down, tips pointed, blunt, or notched, with a minute point. Flowers 20-30 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow to orange yellow, the keel occasionally greenish, densely fringed on the margins with white hairs to 1 mm long, Flowers in clusters of 1-3 flowers. Flowers Winter to Summer.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gompholobium~latifolium (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): 143-146