Common name: Red Wedge Pea
Gompholobium uncinatum A.Cunn. ex Benth. APNI* 
Description: Small diffuse or decumbent shrub to c. 35 cm high, often forming a mat to 1 m diam.; stems sparsely hairy, densely tuberculate.
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets linear or narrow-lanceolate, 4–12 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, apex with a minute, often-recurved point, margins recurved to revolute, dull slaty-green to purplish or reddish; stipules absent.
Flowers solitary or few together; pedicels 3–6 mm long. Calyx 5–7 mm long. Corolla 7–12 mm long, bright red to orange-red, often with yellow-green or white markings; keel glabrous or minutely ciliate. Ovules c. 6.
Pod ± globose to obliquely ovoid, 7–10 mm long, stipitate.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in dry sclerophyll forest and heath on sandstone or granite; north from the Blue Mtns.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, NT, CT, CWS
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by B. Wiecek
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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