Gompholobium cyaninum

Gompholobium cyaninum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect to straggling shrub with pinnate leaves and blue, purple and red, pea-like flowers.

Gompholobium cyaninum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Gompholobium
Species:
G. cyaninum
Binomial name
Gompholobium cyaninum

Description

Gompholobium cyaninum is an erect to straggling shrub that typically grows to a height of 7–60 cm (2.8–23.6 in). It has pinnate leaves with fifteen to nineteen leaflets with a stipule at the base of the leaf. Each flowers is borne on a hairy pedicel 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) long with sometimes hairy sepals 7.6–10.4 mm (0.30–0.41 in) long. The flowers are red and blue or purple, the standard petal 10–12 mm (0.39–0.47 in) long, the wings 7.6–9 mm (0.30–0.35 in) long and the keel 8–9 mm (0.31–0.35 in) long. Flowering occurs from September to December and the fruit is a cylindrical pod.[2]

Taxonomy

Gompholobium cyaninum was first formally described in 2008 by Jennifer Anne Chappill in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected near Wandering in 2000.[3] The specific epithet (cyaninum) means "deep blue".[4]

Distribution and habitat

This pea grows in sandy to gravelly soil on plains slopes and valleys in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.[2]

Conservation status

Gompholobium cyaninum is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.[2]

References
  1. "Gompholobium cyaninum". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  2. "Gompholobium cyaninum". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. "Gompholobium cyaninum". APNI. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  4. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 176. ISBN 9780958034180.
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