Gompholobium inconspicuum Crisp APNI* Synonyms: Gompholobium sp. B sensu Wiecek (1991) APNI*
Description: Prostrate or decumbent shrub to c. 20 cm high; stems and branches sparsely hairy, densely tuberculate.
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets linear to oblanceolate, 5–8 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, apex ± acute, with a minute, recurved point, margins recurved to revolute, dull green to reddish; stipules minute, recurved.
Flowers mostly solitary or racemes few-flowered; pedicels c. 5 mm long. Calyx 6–7 mm long. Corolla 7–12 mm long, pale yellow or yellow-green with darker markings; keel minutely ciliate or glabrous. Ovules c. 6.
Pod ovoid, 8–12 mm long.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Often grows in dry sclerophyll forest, on sandy soils & rocky areas south from the Blue Mtns.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST
Other Australian states: Vic.
Text by B. Wiecek
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