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Synonyms: Gompholobium virgatum var. aspalathoides (A.Cunn. ex Benth.) Benth. APNI*
Gompholobium virgatum var. aspalathoides (A.Cunn. ex Benth.) Benth. APNI*

Description: Erect ± glabrous shrub to 2 m high and 0.75 cm wide; stems terete with faint ribs, tuberculate between ribs.

Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets linear, to narrow-obovate or narrow-elliptic, 9–17 mm long, 0.6–0.8 mm wide, margins entire and revolute, apex ± recurved, truncate to bulbose.

Flowers 1–5 in upper axils; pedicels to 3–6 mm long. Calyx 6–7 mm long. Corolla 12–20 mm long, yellow; keel sometimes minutely ciliate. Ovules 6–8.

Pod obliquely-ovoid, to c. 10 mm long, stipitate; seed ellipsoid, cream to brown, aril absent.

Flower Photo D. Hardin

Flowering: May to January.

Distribution and occurrence: Widespread in inland NSW and Queensland, SW of Moruya and NW of Bundaberg.

This species grows in heathland, woodland or dry sclerophyll forest, on red sand or yellow-brown gravelly sand, or sandy loam over granite, sandstone or laterite.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS, NWP
Other Australian states: Qld

AVH map***

Gompholobium aspalathoides is most commonly mistaken for G. grandiflorum from which it differs in the smaller flowers and truncate rather than acute leaflet apices. It differs from G. huegelii in the shorter peduncles, generally longer leaflets and usually glabrous keel margin. It differs from G. virgatum, of which it has been considered a variety, in the narrower leaflets, tuberculate branchlets and truncate or obtuse leaflet apex that lacks an apiculum.