Common name: Dainty Wedge Pea
Gompholobium glabratum Sieber ex DC. APNI* 
Description: Decumbent or ascending shrub, 5–40 cm high, virgate with slender branches; stems often sparsely hairy, densely tuberculate.
Leaves pinnate; leaflets 5–7, linear to narrow-oblanceolate, 10–15 mm long, 0.5–1.5 mm wide, apex minute, straight or curved, sometimes obtuse, margins revolute or recurved, ± glabrous.
Flowers in short, terminal few-flowered heads; pedicels 4–10 mm long. Calyx to c. 8 mm long. Corolla 8–10 mm long, greenish yellow or bright yellow with leaden grey markings on the outer surface; keel not ciliate. Ovules 8–10.
Pod obliquely obovoid or broad-oblong, 8–10 mm long, stipitate.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread in dry sclerophyll forest and heath on sandy soils, south from Forster.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, CT, ST, CWS
Other Australian states: Vic.
Text by B. Wiecek
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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