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Gompholobium latifolium Sm.
Family Fabaceae
Subfamily Faboideae
Common name: Golden Glory Pea

Gompholobium latifolium Sm. APNI*

Description: Erect, glabrous shrub to 3 m high; stems smooth.

Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, mostly 25–50 mm long, 2–6 mm wide, apex acute or obtuse, minutely mucronate, darker on upper surface; stipules minute or absent.

Flowers solitary or 2 or 3 together, terminal or axillary; pedicels c. 10 mm long, often appearing longer due to suppression of other flowers. Calyx c. 12 mm long. Corolla 20–30 mm long, yellow; keel incurved, occasionally greenish, densely ciliate on margins with white hairs to 1 mm long. Ovules 12–15.

Pod ovoid to oblong, 15–18 mm long, stipitate.


Flower
Photo Tanja Lenz

Flowering: spring to early summer.

Distribution and occurrence: Widespread on the coast and adjacent ranges, in dry sclerophyll forest on sandstone.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT
Other Australian states: Qld Vic.
AVH map***

Text by B. Wiecek
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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