Gompholobium foliolosum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with pinnate leaves and orange-red, pea-like flowers.
Gompholobium foliolosum is an erect, more or less glaucous shrub that typically grows to a height of up to . The leaves are pinnate, long, the leaflets wedge-shaped, egg-shaped or heart-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long, wide and more or less glabrous. The flowers are arranged in small groups on the ends of branchlets, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are about long and the flowers are orange-red and long. Flowering occurs in spring and the fruit is a more or less spherical pod about long.[1]
Gompholobium foliolosum was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham in Thomas Mitchell's Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia.[2] [3] The specific epithet (foliolosum) means "leafy".[4]
Fern-leaved burtonia grows in Queensland and in the Coonabarabran area in New South Wales.