Gompholobium viscidulum 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 shrub with pinnate leaves with five to seven leaflets, and yellow flowers.
Gompholobium viscidulum is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has glabrous stems. The leaves are arranged alternately along the branches, pinnate and long with five to seven leaflets. The flowers are uniformly yellow, each flower on a pedicel long with bracteoles attached. The sepals are long, the standard petal long, the wings long and the keel long. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is a cylindrical pod.
Gompholobium viscidulum was first formally described in 1844 by Carl Meissner in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae.[1] [2] The specific epithet (viscidulum) means "somewhat sticky".[3]
This species of pea grows on sandplains and on hillsides in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains and Mallee biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.
Gompholobium viscidulum is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.