Gompholobium gompholobioides
Gompholobium gompholobioides is a small flowering plant in the pea family, native to the southwest of Western Australia. It forms a spreading shrub about 7–40 cm tall. The leaves are compound with several small leaflets (each leaflet 3.5–5.5 mm long) and tiny stipules at the base. The flowers are all yellow and pea-shaped, on short, smooth flower stalks. The sepals are hairy and 6.0–6.5 mm long; the standard petal is 6–8 mm, the wings 5.0–6.6 mm, and the keel 5.0–6.5 mm. It flowers from September to March, and the fruit is a pod.
Taxonomy: The plant was first named Burtonia gompholobioides by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1876, and in 1987 Michael Crisp renamed it Gompholobium gompholobioides. The name gompholobioides means “like Gastrolobium.”
Habitat and distribution: It grows on sand dunes and plains in several western Australian bioregions, including Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Great Victoria Desert, Mallee, and Yalgoo.
Conservation: It is not considered threatened.
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