Chorizema rhynchotropis

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Chorizema rhynchotropis
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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

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.

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Description

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) long 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

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

This chorizema grows on sandplains in sandy or gravelly soils in the Avon Wheatbelt and Geraldton Sandplains bioregions of south-western Western Australia. [2]

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References

  1. "Chorizema rhynchotropis". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
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