Gompholobium pungens
Gompholobium pungens is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, openly-branched shrub with spiny stems, pinnate leaves and mostly yellow, pea-like flowers with pink or purple markings. Description
Gompholobium pungens is an erect, openly-branched shrub that typically grows to  high and up to  wide and has spiny stems. Its leaves are  long and pinnate with eight to seventeen cylindrical leaflets. Each flower is borne on a hairy pedicel  long with hairy bracteoles  long. The sepals are about  long, the standard petal is yellow to orange with pink or purple markings and about  long, the wings about  long, and the keel about  long. Flowering occurs from August to September and the fruit is a pod about  long. Taxonomy
Gompholobium pungens was first formally described in 2008 by Jennifer Anne Chappill in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected near Warradarge in 1999. The specific epithet (pungens) means "ending in a sharp, hard point". Distribution and habitat
This pea grows in lower valley slopes and on small rises in the Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia. Conservation status
Gompholobium pungens is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. References

pungens
Eudicots of Western Australia
Plants described in 2008