Gompholobium oreophilum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the north-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with pinnate leaves with elliptic leaflets, and racemes of yellow to orange and creamy-yellow, pea-like flowers.
Gompholobium oreophilum is an erect shrub that typically grows to high and up to wide with densely hairy branchlets. Its leaves are pinnate, mostly with nine or ten pairs of elliptic leaflets that are long and wide. The leaves are on a petiole long with stipules long at the base, and the leaflets are on petiolules long. The flowers are borne on racemes of thirteen to thirty, on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel long. There are bracts and bracteoles that fall as the flowers open. The sepals are fused at the base forming a tube long, the upper lobes long and the lower lobes slightly shorter. The standard petal is long and yellow to orange-yellow, the wings yellow to yellow-orange and long, and the keel creamy yellow and long. Flowering occurs from July to September and the fruit is an elliptic pod long and wide.[1]
Gompholobium oreophilum was first formally described in 2012 by Carolyn F. Wilkins and Malcolm Eric Trudgen in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected on Mount Sheila in the Hamersley Range in 2011.[2] The specific epithet (oreophilum) means "mountain-loving", since the species occurs on or near mountains.
This pea grows in open woodland and grassland, mainly in the Hamersley Range but also sometimes in the Chichester Range, in the Pilbara and Gascoyne biogeographic regions of north-western Western Australia.
Gompholobium oreophilum is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.