Sphaerolobium linophyllum
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| Sphaerolobium linophyllum | |
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| Near Newdegate | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Sphaerolobium |
| Species: | S. linophyllum |
| Binomial name | |
| Sphaerolobium linophyllum | |
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Sphaerolobium linophyllum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a prostrate to ascending shrub with a few narrowly linear leaves and red, yellow and orange flowers.
Sphaerolobium linophyllum is a prostrate to ascending shrub that typically grows to a height of 5–40 cm (2.0–15.7 in) and has many stems. It has only a few narrowly linear leaves, the longest 13–25 mm (0.51–0.98 in) long and thick. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils with leafy bracts 2.0–6.5 mm (0.079–0.256 in) long at the base. The sepals are about 6.5 mm (0.26 in) long and joined at the base for more than half their length. The flowers are red, yellow and orange, the standard petal about 10 mm (0.39 in) long, the wings curved and slightly shorter than the standard and the keel less than 6 mm (0.24 in) long with a fringe of white hairs. Flowering occurs from September to February and the fruit is an inflated oval pod about 6 mm (0.24 in) long.[2][3]