Gompholobium

Taxonomy

Gompholobium J.E. Smith Trans. Linn. Soc. London 4: 220. 24 Mai 1798.

Subfamily: Faboideae.
Phylogenetic Number: 3.24.01.
Tribe: Mirbelieae.
Group: Gompholobium.
Species Studied - Species in Genus: 16 studied; ca. 35 in genus.

Description

Fruit: A legume; unilocular; 0.4–2 cm long; 0.4–1.3 cm wide; 0.3–1 cm thick; length less than twice as long as width, or 2–9 times longer than wide; with deciduous androecial sheath; with deciduous corolla; with persistent calyx, or deciduous calyx; with calyx shorter than fruit; without orifice formed by curving of fruit or fruit segments; straight; not plicate; not twisted; asymmetrical, or symmetrical; circular, or oblong; with both sutures parallelly curved, or both sutures nearly straight; not inflated; terete; without beak; rounded at apex; oblique with longitudinal axis of fruit; rounded at base; aligned with longitudinal axis of fruit; with the apex and base uniform in texture; coriaceous; seed chambers externally invisible; margin not constricted; margin without sulcus; margin plain; wing(s) absent; substipitate; with all layers dehiscing; splitting along suture(s). Dehiscence of valves along both sutures, or 1 suture; apical and down; passive. Replum invisible. Epicarp dull; monochrome; black; with surface texture uniform; glabrous, or glabrate (with hairs along sutures); with hairs erect; with 1 type of pubescence; puberulent; with pubescence gray; with pubescence uniformly distributed; pliable; with hair bases plain; eglandular; without spines; not smooth; with elevated features; not veined; not tuberculate; not exfoliating; without cracks; without embedded tissue, much thicker than epicarp, running from base to apex. Mesocarp present; thin; surface not veined; 1-layered; without balsamic vesicles; without fibers; without reniform canals; solid; coriaceous. Endocarp present; visible; dull, or glossy; opaque; monochrome, or streaked; tan; with streaking more or less uniform (dark); with brown overlay; smooth; without adhering pieces of testa; nonseptate; chartaceous; not exfoliating; remaining fused to mesocarp and epicarp; without wings; entire. Seed(s) 6–12; length transverse to fruit length; overlapping, or touching; in 1 series. Funiculus 0.5–3 mm long; of 1 length only; thick; S-curved, or hooked. Aril absent, or present; dry; when dry well developed rim-aril; entire; reddish brown.

Seed: 1.6–3 mm long; 1.2–2.5 mm wide; 1–2.1 mm thick; not overgrown; not angular; asymmetrical; mitaform, or reniform, or circular; compressed, or terete; with surface smooth; without visible radicle and cotyledon lobes; without hilar sinus; without umbo on seed faces; without medial ridge on each face. Cuticle not exfoliating; inflated (like bubbles), or not inflated (around hilum); not wrinkled. Testa present; without pieces of adhering epicarp; not adhering to endocarp; free from endocarp; dull; not modified by a bloom; colored; monochrome, or mottled; with frequent mottles; reddish brown, or tan (reddish), or orange, or black; with black overlay; glabrous; smooth; coriaceous. Pleurogram absent. Pseudopleurogram absent. Fracture lines absent. Rim absent. Wing(s) absent. Raphe not visible. Hilum present; partially concealed; concealed by aril; with faboid split; with the lips of the faboid split the same color as the rest of the hilum; larger than punctiform; 0.7 mm long; with curved outline; oval; marginal according to radicle tip; recessed; within rim; rim color of testa. Lens discernible; with margins curved; circular; not in groove of raphe; confluent with hilum; mounded; same color as testa, or similar color as testa, or dissimilar color from testa; darker than testa; reddish brown, or black; not within corona, halo, or rim. Endosperm present; thin; not pluglike and not resembling tip of radicle; covering entire embryo; adnate to testa, or embryo. Cotyledons smooth; both outer faces convex; both the same thickness; both more or less of equal length; not folded; margin entire 180 degrees from base of radicle; similar at apex; not concealing radicle; split over radicle; with lobes; with the interface division terminating at base of radicle; without margins recessed; pale tan, or brown (reddish); inner face flat; glabrous on inner face. Embryonic axis deflexed; oblique to length of seed; without a joint evident between the radicle and the cotyledons. Radicle differentiated from cotyledon; bulbose; lobe tip straight; deflexed and parallel to cotyledon length; centered between cotyledons; less than 1/2 length of cotyledons. Plumule moderately developed, or well developed; glabrous.

Distribution

Australia and New Guinea (G. papuanum E.D. Merrill & L.M. Perry).

Old World; Indonesia and the Philippines to Australia to New Guinea.

Generic Notes

Crisp and Weston (1987), in Appendix II, united Burtonia R. Brown with Gompholobium under the latter name. The group names are those of Crisp and Weston (1987, 1995).

Tribal Notes

Tribe Mirbelieae

Crisp and Weston (1987) analyzed the Mirbelieae, and we are following their species counts. We did not treat the following new taxa of Crisp and Weston: the Pultenaea incurvata A. Cunningham group of five species; Pultenaea neurocalyx P.K.N.S. Turczanivow, a one species group; Aotus phyliocides G. Bentham, a one species group; and, Oxylobium microphyllum G. Bentham, a two species genus. The genus Cupulanthus J. Hutchinson is listed on page 85 of Crisp and Weston (1987) and not mentioned by them again. Crisp and Weston (1995) have continued their phylogenetic studies of Mirbelieae, and proposed two major generic changes, the resurrection of Podolobium R. Brown with six species of Oxylobium (24.09, see Notes for Oxylobium) and a new genus, tentatively to be named Otion. Otion, as projected, will have six species, two new ones and four from four different genera: Aotus phylicoides G. Bentham, Burtonia simplicifolia F.J.H. von Mueller & R. Tate, Oxylobium microphyllum G. Bentham, and Phyllota luehmannii F.J.H. von Mueller.