#glory pea

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Glory Pea (Clianthus puniceus) by Miss Drake.

Coloured etching with watercolour and gum arabic (circa 1835) by S. Watts.

Image and text information courtesy The Wellcome Collection.

Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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#3598 - Gompholobium marginatum - Margined Glory Pea

The genus name is derived from the Greek words gomphos (club, bolt, or peg) and lobos (pod), referring to the inflated or club-shaped seed pods characteristic of the plants - very inflated, in this case. The specific epithet means "furnished with a border", referring to the thickened edge of the leaves.

First formally described in 1811 by Robert Brown.

Widespread in gravelly and granitic soils across the SW corner. In this case, in gravelly granitic soil.

Kalamunda NP, Perth