Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Gompholobium virgatum
Common name
Leafy wedge pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Open dry forest, woodland, and heath. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands north of west of Tuross Head.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m tall or sprawling. Branchlets cylindrical, with faint ribs, hairless or sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 0.7-2 cm long, 0.8-4.3 mm wide, hairless, dark grey-green or grey-green above, brownish-green or yellow-green below, margins curved down, tips pointed, blunt, or squared off, sometimes notched in coastal areas. Flowers 12-20 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, standard petal and wings yellow, keel greenish yellow, in clusters of 1-3. Flowers all year.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Gompholobium~virgatum (accessed 12 January, 2021)
The description above is partly based on: Chappill, J.A., Wilkins, C.F. & Crisp, M.D., (2008) Taxonomic revision of Gompholobium (Leguminosae: Mirbelieae). Australian Systematic Botany 21(2): 131-132
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