Gompholobium karijini is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the north-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, openly-branched shrub with pinnate leaves with five to ten pairs of leaflets, and racemes of yellow to orange and creamy-yellow, pea-like flowers.
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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. karijini
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| Binomial name | |
| Gompholobium karijini | |
Description
editGompholobium karijini is an erect shrub that typically grows to 40–70 cm (16–28 in) high and up to 1.3 m (4 ft 3 in) wide with more or less glabrous branchlets. Its leaves are pinnate with five to ten pairs of elliptic to egg-shaped leaflets that are 4–6.5 mm (0.16–0.26 in) long and 2.5–5 mm (0.098–0.197 in) wide. The leaves are on a petiole 0.6–2.1 mm (0.024–0.083 in) long with stipules 1.5–3 mm (0.059–0.118 in) long at the base, and the leaflets are on petiolules 0.5–0.6 mm (0.020–0.024 in) long. The flowers are borne on racemes of four to more than one hundred, on a peduncle 3.5–20 mm (0.14–0.79 in) long, each flower on a pedicel 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) long. There are bracts and bracteoles that fall at the bud stage. The sepals are fused at the base with lobes 5.3–6.6 mm (0.21–0.26 in) long. The standard petal and wings are yellow to orange and 10–11 mm (0.39–0.43 in) long, and the keel creamy yellow and 9.5–12 mm (0.37–0.47 in) long. Flowering occurs in January and from August to September and the fruit is a pod about 7 mm (0.28 in) long.[2][3]
Taxonomy
editGompholobium karijini was first formally described in 2008 by Jennifer Anne Chappill in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected in Hamersley Gorge in Karijini National Park in 1991.[4] The specific epithet (karijini) refers to the type location.[5]
The original description included features that apply to the more recently described G. oreophilum.[3]
Distribution and habitat
editThis pea grows in grassland with scattered trees and shrubs and is only known from Karijini National Park in the Pilbara region of north-western Western Australia.[2][3]
Conservation status
editGompholobium karijini is classified as "Priority Two" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife[2] meaning that it is poorly known and from only one or a few locations.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Gompholobium karijini". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
- ^ a b c "Gompholobium karijini". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
- ^ a b c Wilkins, Carolyn F.; Trudgen, Malcolm E. (2012). "A new species of Gompholobium (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae) from the Pilbara bioregion of Western Australia" (PDF). Nuytsia. 22 (1): 32–34. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
- ^ "Gompholobium karijini". APNI. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
- ^ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 230. ISBN 9780958034180.
- ^ "Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna" (PDF). Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. Retrieved 13 August 2021.