Chorizema rhynchotropis
Chorizema rhynchotropis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a straggling, sprawling or erect shrub with linear, sharply-pointed leaves, and orange or red and pink and yellow pea flowers.
| Chorizema rhynchotropis | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Chorizema |
| Species: | C. rhynchotropis |
| Binomial name | |
| Chorizema rhynchotropis | |
Description edit
Chorizema rhynchotropis is a straggling, sprawling or erect shrub with glabrous arching stems. Its leaves are linear, sharply-pointed, 4–18 mm (0.16–0.71 in) long 0.8–1.2 mm (0.031–0.047 in) wide and hairy. The flowers are orange, or red and pink and yellow, arranged in racemes on the ends of the branches, often forming long, leafy panicles, each flower on a pedicel 3.0–6.5 mm (0.12–0.26 in) long. The sepals are silky-hairy, about 6.5 mm (0.26 in) long, the lobes longer than the sepal tube. The standard petal is 11–13 mm (0.43–0.51 in) long, the wings 9–10 mm (0.35–0.39 in) long, and the keel 10.0–10.9 mm (0.39–0.43 in) long. Flowering occurs from August to November.[2][3]
Taxonomy and naming edit
Chorizema rhynchotropis was first formally described in 1848 by Carl Meissner in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae.[4][5] The specific epithet (rhynchotropis) means "a snout-shaped keel".[6]
Distribution and habitat edit
This chorizema grows on sandplains in sandy or gravelly soils in the Avon Wheatbelt and Geraldton Sandplains bioregions of south-western Western Australia.[2]
References edit
- ^ "Chorizema rhynchotropis". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
- ^ a b "Chorizema rhynchotropis". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
- ^ Bentham, George (1864). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 2. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. p. 31. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
- ^ "Chorizema rhynchotropis". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
- ^ Meissner, Carl (1848). Preiss, Johann J.C. (ed.). Plantae preissianae sive enumeratio plantarum quas in australasia occidentali et meridionali-occidentali annis 1838-1841 collegit Ludovicus Preiss. Vol. 2. Hamburg: Sumptibus Meissneri. p. 209.
- ^ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 295. ISBN 9780958034180.