Gompholobium virgatum, commonly known as leafy wedge pea,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect or sprawling shrub with trifoliate leaves, the leaflets narrow egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow and greenish, pea-like flowers.
Gompholobium virgatum is an erect or sprawling shrub that typically grows up to high and wide. The leaves are trifoliate, the leaflets narrow egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and about wide with the edges curved down. The flowers are arranged singly, in pairs or threes, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are long, the standard petal and wings are yellow and the keel is greenish-yellow. Flowering occurs throughout the year and the fruit is an oval pod long.[2]
Gompholobium virgatum was first formally described in 1825 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, from an unpublished description by Franz Sieber.[3] [4] The specific epithet (virgatum) means "virgate".[5]
Leafy wedge pea grows in heathland, woodland and open forest on the coast and tablelands from southern Queensland to southern New South Wales.