Gastrolobium modestum (Crisp) G.Chandler & Crisp

Scientific Description

Twining or climbing plants. Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, continuous with stem, 30-70 mm long, 15-50 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 4-6 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 3.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 9-10.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 16-20 mm long, multicoloured, pink, mostly green or white, with some green or white spots, streaks or blotches; claws absent; standard 14-19.2 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 13-18 mm long, not auriculate, keel 15-20 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 1-1.3 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 13-19 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, glabrous; style 15-19.5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, not beaked. Flowers in September, October and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest IBRA regions. Conservation Code Threatened (T).