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A Globe Pea
Conservation status: ?
| Flowering: | Spring |
| Flowers: | A typical "pea". Colours are yellow, orange and red. The flowers of some plants are deeper in colour than others. |
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Fabales
Fabaceae
Sphaerolobium
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| Plant: | A small, rush-like shrub usually less than 50 cm high with often a single long stem. It loses its leaves before flowering. |
| Note: | This plant was thought, until recently, to be Sphaerolobium minus. Future investigation by botanists of the Qld Herbarium will determine if it is an unsual form, a subspecies or a new species altogether. |
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