''Gastrolobium glabratum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

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to Western Australia. It is an erect or low-lying shrub with egg-shaped leaves and yellow and red pea flowers, sometimes with orange markings.

Description

''Gastrolobium glabratum'' is a weak, erect or low-lying, often clumped shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are egg-shaped, long and wide with stipules long at the base of the petioles. The flowers are borne on

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long, with

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s long. The petals are yellow and red, sometimes with orange markings, the standard petal long, the wings long and the keel long. Flowering occurs from August to October.

Taxonomy

''Gastrolobium glabratum'' was first formally described in 2002 by Gregory T. Chandler and Michael Douglas Crisp from a specimen collected near Qualen Road west of

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in 1998.The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

(''glabratum'') means "nearly glabrous".

Distribution and habitat

This species of gastrolobium grows in heavy clay and loam on undulating plains in the

Jarrah Forest Jarrah forest is tall open forest in which the dominant overstory tree is ''Eucalyptus marginata'' (jarrah). The ecosystem occurs only in the Southwest Botanical Province of Western Australia. It is most common in the biogeographic region named in ...

bioregion of south-western Western Australia.

Conservation status

''Gastrolobium glabratum'' is listed as "not threatened" under the Western Australian Government '' Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q51044279 glabratum Rosids of Western Australia Endemic flora of Western Australia Plants described in 2002 Taxa named by Michael Crisp