Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Gompholobium minus

Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer M Crisp, Mongarlowe, east of Braidwood

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Wadbilliga National Park

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer S Donaldson, Ballalaba Road, near Braidwood

Common name

Dwarf wedge pea

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, shrubland, and heath. Tablelands and ranges. Coastal north from the Nowra district.

Notes

Sprawling or prostrate shrub to 1 m tall. Branchlets angular, densely hairy, often warty. Leaves alternating along the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each mostly 0.3-1.2 cm long, 0.4-1 mm wide, hairless, yellow-green, tips pointed, straight to strongly curved, and with a minute point, margins curved to rolled down. Flowers 8-15 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow, sometimes with green keels. Flowers single or in few-flowered clusters. Flowers Winter to Summer. 

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gompholobium~minus (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): 139-140