Gompholobium venustum
Gompholobium venustum, commonly known as handsome wedge-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender, erect or sprawling shrub with pinnate leaves with fifteen to nineteen leaflets, and yellow or pink, pea-like flowers. Description
Gompholobium venustum is a slender, erect or sprawling shrub that typically grows to a height of  and has glabrous stems. Its leaves are pinnate and  long with fifteen to nineteen needle-shaped leaflets with one or two longitudinal grooves on the lower surface. The flowers are mostly yellow or pink, borne on glabrous pedicels  long with bracteoles  long, attached. The sepals are glabrous,  long, the standard petal  long, the wings  long and the keel  long. Flowering occurs from September to December and the fruit is a cylindrical pod  long. Taxonomy
Gompholobium venustum was first formally described in 1811 by Robert Brown in Hortus Kewensis. The specific epithet (venustum) means "charming" or "beautiful". Distribution and habitat
This gompholobium grows on sandplains, ridges and outcrops in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Warren biogeographic regions of southern Western Australia. Conservation status
Gompholobium venustum is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. References

venustum
Eudicots of Western Australia
Plants described in 1811
Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)