Gompholobium scabrum is a species of flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub with linear leaves and pink or purple flowers with some darker markings.
Gompholobium scabrum is an erect or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and has glabrous stems. The leaves are arranged in whorls around the stem, linear with the edges curved downwards long and wide. The flowers are pink or purple with some darker markings, each flower on a pedicel long with bracteoles long. The sepals are long, the standard petal about long, the wings about long and the keel long. Flowering occurs from August to November and the fruit is a cylindrical pod.
Gompholobium scabrum was first formally described in 1808 by James Edward Smith in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.[1] [2] The specific epithet (scabrum) means "scabrous", referring to the stems.[3]
This species of pea grows on undulating plains in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.
Gompholobium scabrum is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.