Gompholobium hendersonii


Gompholobium hendersonii is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with simple leaves, and red and purplish-brown, pea-like flowers.

Description

Gompholobium hendersonii is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of. Its leaves are simple, long, wide and lacks stipules. The flowers are red and purplish-brown, borne on glabrous pedicels long with glabrous sepals long. The standard petal is long, the wings long and the keel long. Flowering occurs from September to October and the fruit is a pod.

Taxonomy

Gompholobium hendersonii was first formally described in 1842 by Joseph Paxton in Paxton's Magazine of Botany from specimens grown in the gardens of "Messrs. Henderson, of Pine-apple Place" from seed collected in 1840 from the Swan River, by "Captain Mangles". The specific epithet honours the gardener, Joseph Henderson.

Distribution and habitat

This pea grows on undulating plains in the Avon Wheatbelt Coolgardie and Mallee biogeographic regions in the south-west of Western Australia.

Conservation status

Gompholobium hendersonii is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.