Gompholobium huegelii

Gompholobium huegelii, commonly called the common wedge-pea, is an erect or spreading shrub of the pea family Fabaceae, typically reaching about one metre in height. Its leaves are trifoliolate with narrowly lance-shaped to almost linear leaflets 5 to 20 mm long, somewhat thickened and dark green above. The pea-flowers are borne singly or in small terminal clusters at the tips of the branchlets between September and April, each about 12 to 18 mm long with cream to clear yellow petals and a yellowish-green centre; the standard is broad and notched, the wings and keel paler. After flowering, small, swollen, ovoid legume pods develop, splitting at maturity to release several seeds. The species is endemic to south-eastern Australia, ranging from far south-eastern Queensland through coastal and tableland New South Wales into Victoria's higher-rainfall districts and across Tasmania, where it is widespread and common in heathlands and open sclerophyll forests on sandy or gravelly soils. It was formally described in 1837 by George Bentham, with its specific name honouring Charles von Hügel.