''Gompholobium uncinatum'', commonly known as red wedge pea,
is a species of flowering plant in the family
and is
endemic
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to eastern Australia. It is a small, low-lying shrub with
trifoliate
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leaves, the leaflets linear to narrow lance-shaped, and red, or orange-red and yellow-green, pea-like flowers.
Description
''Gompholobium uncinatum'' is an openly-branched, low-lying or sprawling shrub that typically grows to a height of and has pimply stems. The leaves are trifoliate, the leaflets linear to narrow lance-shaped, long and about wide with the edges curved down or rolled under and the tips often with a hooked tip. The flowers are arranged singly or in small groups, each flower on a
pedicel
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long. The sepals are long and the petals are red or orange-red, long, often with yellow-green markings. Flowering occurs in summer and the fruit is a spherical to oval
pod
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* Pod (fruit), a type of fruit of a flowering plant
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* "-pod", a suffix meaning "foot" used in taxonomy
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long.
Taxonomy and naming
''Gompholobium uncinatum'' was first formally described in 1837 by
George Bentham from an unpublished description by
Allan Cunningham. Bentham's description was published in ''Commentationes de Leguminosarum Generibus''.
The
specific epithet
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(''uncinatum'') means "hooked".
Distribution and habitat
Red wedge pea grows in heathland and forest from south-east Queensland to the
Blue Mountains in New South Wales.
References
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uncinatum
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Queensland
Plants described in 1837
Taxa named by George Bentham