| Red wedge pea | |
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| Gompholobium uncinatum near Newnes | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Gompholobium |
| Species: | G. uncinatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Gompholobium uncinatum A.Cunn. ex Benth. | |
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Gompholobium uncinatum, commonly known as red wedge pea, 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.
Description
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.
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Gompholobium uncinatum was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham.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 (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
- ^ "Gompholobium uncinatum". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
- ^ "Gompholobium uncinatum". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
- ^ Wood, Betty. "Gompholobium uncinatum". Lucid Keys. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
- "Gompholobium uncinatum". APNI. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
- Bentham, George (1837). Commentationes de Leguminosarum Generibus. p. 8. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
- Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 331. ISBN 9780958034180.