Gompholobium

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Gompholobium ecostatum


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Gompholobium is a genus in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. The genus is endemic to Australia.


Read about Gompholobium in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Gompholobium (name refers to club-shaped pod). Leguminosae. Two dozen Australian yellow- or red-fld. shrubs, rarely cult. Lvs. simple or compound, the lfts. mostly narrow: fls. papilionaceous, solitary, few or' in short racemes; standard orbicular or reniform, exceeding the other petals; wings falcate-oblong; keel mostly broader than the wings, obtuse; stamens free: pod very wide or nearly globular, inflated, bearing small seeds. They are said to be excellent greenhouse shrubs; prop, by cuttings of young shoots. G. polymorphum, R. Br. Glabrous shrub or undershrub, variable in foliage and habit: lfts. 3, but sometimes 5 or 7 or 9, digitate, mostly linear, to 1 in. long: fls. orange-yellow to bright crimson: pod much inflated, ovoid-globular. CH


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  1. "Gompholobium". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. Retrieved on 2008-10-17.