Gompholobium foliolosum

Gompholobium foliolosum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with pinnate leaves and orange-red, pea-like flowers.

Description

Gompholobium foliolosum is an erect, more or less glaucous shrub that typically grows to a height of up to. The leaves are pinnate, long, the leaflets wedge-shaped, egg-shaped or heart-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long, wide and more or less glabrous. The flowers are arranged in small groups on the ends of branchlets, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are about long and the flowers are orange-red and long. Flowering occurs in spring and the fruit is a more or less spherical pod about long.

Taxonomy and naming

Gompholobium foliolosum was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham in Thomas Mitchell's Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia. The specific epithet means "leafy".

Distribution

Fern-leaved burtonia grows in Queensland and in the Coonabarabran area in New South Wales.