Gastrolobium nudum G.Chandler & Crisp

Scientific Description

Shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, continuous with stem, 15-25 mm long, 10-15 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. Pedicel present, 2.5-3.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 5.5-7.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 11-15 mm long, multicoloured, mostly red or orange, with some red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws absent; standard 10-11.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 8-9 mm long, not auriculate, keel 9-10 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5-0.7 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 7.5-9 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 9-10.5 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, not beaked. Flowers in February, October, November and December. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Geraldton Sandplains and Jarrah Forest IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Two (P2).