Gastrolobium spinosum

Taxobox
name = Prickly Poison


image_width = 240px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Fabales
familia = Fabaceae
subfamilia = Faboideae
tribus = Mirbelieae
genus = "Gastrolobium"
species = "G. spinosum"
binomial = "Gastrolobium spinosum"
binomial_authority = Benth.
synonyms=

*"Gastrolobium preissii" Meisn.

"Gastrolobium spinosum" , also known as Prickly Poison, is a shrub in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to the Southwest Australia

The species ranges from 0.3 to 3.5 metres in height. It has leaves with spiky, dentate margins and a long, tapering, pointed apex. The pea flowers are yellow to orange with a band of red surrounding the yellow centre, and a pink and maroon keel. These are produced from early spring to early summer (September to December in Australia).

The species was first formally described by English botanist George Bentham, this description being published by John Lindley in "A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony" in 1839.

References

*cite journal |author=Chandler, G. T., M.D. Crisp, L.W. Cayzer, and R.J. Bayer. |year=2002 |month= |title=Monograph of Gastrolobium (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae)|journal=Australian Systematic Botany |volume=15 |issue= |pages=619–739 |id= |url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/publications/bayer-publications/71.Aust.Syst.Bot.15_619-739.pdf |accessdate= |quote=|doi=10.1071/SB01010
*FloraBase|name=Gastrolobium spinosum|id=3924
*APNI | name = Gastrolobium spinosum| id = 53934