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Gompholobium pungens
Gompholobium pungens is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, openly-branched shrub with spiny stems, pinnate leaves and mostly yellow, pea-like flowers with pink or purple markings.
From the article Gompholobium pungens on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Gompholobium pungens is an erect, openly-branched shrub that typically grows to 50–70 cm (20–28 in) high and up to 40 m (130 ft) wide and has spiny stems. Its leaves are 17–72 mm (0.67–2.83 in) long and pinnate with eight to seventeen cylindrical leaflets. Each flower is borne on a hairy pedicel 7.0–7.2 mm (0.28–0.28 in) long with hairy bracteoles 1.2–1.5 mm (0.047–0.059 in) long. The sepals are about 8 mm (0.31 in) long, the standard petal is yellow to orange with pink or purple markings and about 7.6 mm (0.30 in) long, the wings about 7 mm (0.28 in) long, and the keel about 6.5 mm (0.26 in) long. Flowering occurs from August to September and the fruit is a pod about 7 mm (0.28 in) long.
Range & habitat
This pea grows in lower valley slopes and on small rises in the Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1404847.