Gastrolobium
Sign in to saveGastrolobium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. There are over 100 species in this genus, and all but two are native to the south west region of Western Australia.
Species
FamilyFabaceae
Native toNorthern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
General: to be monophyletic and nested deeply within Gastrolobium ; only a single
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21 sectionsContents
- Species
- ''Gastrolobium bilobum'' Group
- ''Gastrolobium parviflorum'' Subgroup
- ''Gastrolobium calycinum'' Group
- ''Gastrolobium celsianum'' Group
- ''Gastrolobium cruciatum'' Group
- ''Gastrolobium floribundum'' Group
- ''Gastrolobium heterophyllum'' Group
- ''Gastrolobium ilicifolium'' Group
- ''Gastrolobium obovatum'' Group
- ''Gastrolobium pyramidale'' Group
- ''Gastrolobium retusum'' Group
- ''Gastrolobium spinosum'' Group
- ''Gastrolobium villosum'' Group
- ''Incertae Sedis''
- Species names with uncertain taxonomic status
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Gastrolobium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. There are over 100 species in this genus, and all but two are native to the south west region of Western Australia.
A significant number of the species accumulate monofluoroacetate (the key ingredient of the poison known commonly as 1080), which caused introduced/non native animal deaths from the 1840s in Western Australia. The controversy over the cause of the stock poisoning in that time involved the botanist James Drummond in a series of tests to ascertain the cause of the poisoning, which was determined to be caused primarily by the plants York Road poison (G. calycinum) and Champion Bay poison (G. oxylobioides).