Gompholobium inconspicuum


Gompholobium inconspicuum, commonly known as creeping wedge-pea is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a prostrate or low-lying shrub with trifoliate leaves and pale lemon yellow to yellowish green, pea-like flowers.

Description

Gompholobium inconspicuum is a prostrate or low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of up to with young stems that are glabrous or sparsely hairy. The leaves are trifoliate with linear leaflets, long, about wide with the edges curved downwards and minute stipules at the base. The flowers are arranged singly or in groups of up to three on the ends of branchlets, each flower long on a pedicel about long. The sepals are long and the petals are pale lemon yellow to yellowish green, the standard petal long. Flowering mainly occurs between from August to September, and the fruit is an oval pod long.

Taxonomy and naming

Gompholobium inconspicuum was first formally described in 1995 by Michael Crisp in the journal Muelleria from specimens collected near Windsor in 1994. The specific epithet refers to the difficulty of finding the plants amongst grass tufts.

Distribution

Creeping wedge-pea grows in forest in rocky places, mainly south from near Putty in New South Wales to the Genoa River in far north-eastern Victoria.