Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Gompholobium pinnatum

Flower and leaf. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Red Rocks, north of Coffs Harbour

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Conjola State Forest

Common name

Pinnate wedge-pea

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, and shrubland, often in wet situations. Coast and ranges.

Notes

Shrub to 0.4 m tall, often sprawling. Branchlets cylindrical, finely ribbed, zig-zaggy, hairless to sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, usually with 3-31 leaflets, each 0.55-1.2 cm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, hairless, dark green or grey-green, tips turned down, and pointed with a minute point, margins curved or rolled down. Flowers 6-10 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Standard petal yellow with red markings, wings yellow, keel green. Flowers in clusters of 2-5 flowers. Flowers all year, mostly spring and summer.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gompholobium~pinnatum (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): 128-129