Red wedge pea | |
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Gompholobium uncinatum near Newnes | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Genus: | Gompholobium |
Species: | G. uncinatum |
Binomial name | |
Gompholobium uncinatum | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Gompholobium uncinatum, commonly known as red wedge pea, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small, low-lying shrub with trifoliate leaves, the leaflets linear to narrow lance-shaped, and red, or orange-red and yellow-green, pea-like flowers.
Gompholobium uncinatum is an openly-branched, low-lying or sprawling shrub that typically grows to a height of 35–90 cm (14–35 in) and has pimply stems. The leaves are trifoliate, the leaflets linear to narrow lance-shaped, 4–12 mm (0.16–0.47 in) long and about 1 mm (0.039 in) 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 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in) long. The sepals are 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) long and the petals are red or orange-red, 7–12 mm (0.28–0.47 in) long, often with yellow-green markings. Flowering occurs in summer and the fruit is a spherical to oval pod 7–10 mm (0.28–0.39 in) long. [2] [3]
Gompholobium uncinatum was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham.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. [4] [5] The specific epithet (uncinatum) means "hooked". [6]
Red wedge pea grows in heathland and forest from south-east Queensland to the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. [2] [3]
Gompholobium ecostatum, commonly known as dwarf wedge-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is a low-lying to erect shrub with trifoliate leaves with linear to lance-shaped leaflets, and apricot-coloured to reddish, sometimes yellow flowers.
Gompholobium huegelii, commonly known as common wedge-pea is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with trifoliate leaves and cream-coloured to yellow and greenish, pea-like flowers.
Gompholobium latifolium, commonly known as golden glory pea or broad-leaved wedge-pea, is a plant in the pea family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small shrub with leaves composed of three leaflets and which has relatively large yellow flowers in spring and early summer.
Gompholobium grandiflorum, commonly known as large wedge-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is an erect, more or less glabrous shrub with trifoliate leaves and lemon-yellow and greenish, pea-like flowers.
Pultenaea gunnii, commonly known as golden bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a slender, erect to spreading shrub with hairy young stems, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with lance-shaped stipules at the base, and bright yellow and dark red flowers.
Gompholobium glabratum, commonly known as dainty wedge-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a low-lying or ascending shrub with pinnate leaves that have five to seven leaflets, and yellow and green or greyish flowers.
Dillwynia pungens is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south coast of Western Australia. It is an erect, spindly shrub with cylindrical leaves and yellow flowers with red or orange markings.
Dillwynia ramosissima, commonly known as bushy parrot-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a low-lying to erect shrub with linear to narrow oblong or spatula-shaped leaves and yellow flowers with red markings.
Pultenaea cuneata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with triangular to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and groups of yellow to orange and red to purple flowers.
Pultenaea fasciculata, commonly known as alpine bush-pea or bundled bush-pea is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small prostrate or low-lying shrub with cylindrical leaves and yellow to orange-coloured flowers arranged singly or in small groups near the ends of branchlets.
Pultenaea foliolosa, commonly known as the small-leaf bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect to low-lying shrub with elliptic to oblong leaves that are concave on the upper surface, and yellow to orange and reddish-brown flowers.
Gompholobium aspalathoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect, more or less glabrous shrub with trifoliate leaves with linear to narrow elliptic leaflets, and yellow pea-like flowers.
Pultenaea myrtoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, pea-like flowers and flattened fruit.
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.
Pultenaea petiolaris, commonly known as woolly bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a low-lying shrub with linear leaves, pea-like flowers and flattened fruit.
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.
Gompholobium minus, commonly known as dwarf wedge-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a low, spreading shrub with trifoliate leaves and yellow flowers.
Gompholobium pinnatum, commonly known as pinnate wedge-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an acending or erect shrub with pinnate leaves and yellow flowers with red marks.
Gompholobium subulatum is a species of flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub with pinnate leaves with five to eleven leaflets, and uniformly yellow, pea-like flowers.
Gompholobium virgatum, commonly known as leafy wedge pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a erect or sprawling shrub with trifoliate leaves, the leaflets narrow egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow and greenish, pea-like flowers.