Gompholobium glabratum explained

Gompholobium glabratum, commonly known as dainty wedge-pea,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a low-lying or ascending shrub with pinnate leaves that have five to seven leaflets, and yellow and green or greyish flowers.

Description

Gompholobium glabratum is a low-lying or ascending shrub that typically grows up to a height of and has pimply stems. The leaves are pinnate with five to seven leaflets that are linear to narrow lance-shaped, long and wide and more or less glabrous, the edges curved down or rolled under. The flowers are arranged in small groups on the ends of branchlets, each flower on a pedicel long with sepals up to about long. The petals are long, the standard petal and wings yellow or greenish-yellow and the keel dark brown to greyish. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is an oval pod long.[2]

Taxonomy and naming

Gompholobium glabratum was first formally described in 1825 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in his Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.[3] [4] The specific epithet (glabratum) means "nearly glabrous".[5]

Distribution and habitat

Dainty wedge-pea grows forest and heath on the coast and tablelands of New South Wales south from Forster to the far north-eastern corner of Victoria.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jeanes . Jeff A. . Gompholobium glabratum . Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria . 6 August 2021.
  2. Web site: Wiecek . Barbara . Gompholobium glabratum . Royal Botanic Garden Sydney . 6 August 2021.
  3. Web site: Pultenaea glabratum. APNI. 6 August 2021.
  4. Book: de Candolle . Augustin P. . Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis . 2. 1825 . Paris . 106 . 6 August 2021.
  5. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 206 . 3rd.