Gompholobium polyzygum
Gompholobium polyzygum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to north-western Australia. It is an erect or prostrate shrub with pinnate leaves each with sixteen to twenty-one pairs of leaflets, and yellow-orange and greenish, pea-like flowers. Description
Gompholobium polyzygum is an erect or prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of  with its branchlets densely covered with spreading or curly hairs. Its leaves are pinnate with sixteen to twenty-one pairs of elliptic to more or less round  or egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base,  long and  wide. The leaves are on a petiole  long, the leaflets on petiolules  long. The flowers are borne in racemes of between five and sixteen on a peduncle  long, each flower on a pedicel  long. There are bracts  long at the base of the flowers and hairy bracteoles  long on the upper part of the pedicels. The sepals are fused at the base forming a tube, the upper lobes  long and the lower lobes  long. The standard petal is yellow-orange and  long, the wings  long and the keel orange or yellowish green and  long. Flowering occurs from July to October and the fruit is a pod  long. Taxonomy
Gompholobium polyzygum was first formally described in 1862 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae. The specific epithet (polyzygum) means "many-yolked", referring to the many leaflets of each leaf. Distribution and habitat
This gompholobium grows open shrubland and grassland in arid inland areas of the Northern Territory and Western Australia. Conservation status
Gompholobium polyzygum is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife and as of "least concern" under the Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1976. References

polyzygum
Eudicots of Western Australia
Flora of the Northern Territory
Plants described in 1862
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller