Gastrolobium formosum

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Gastrolobium formosum
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Status DECF P3.svg
Priority Three — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC) [1]
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Gastrolobium
Species:
G. formosum
Binomial name
Gastrolobium formosum
Synonyms [4]

Cryptosema pimeleoides Meisn.
Jansonia formosa Kippist
Jansonia pimeleoides(Meisn.) C.A.Gardner

Gastrolobium formosum is a small, trailing shrub, with red flowers, in the pea family (Fabaceae), which grows up to a metre high, on clays and loam in swamps and along river banks. [1] The inflorescence consists of head of four unstalked flowers which is sheathed by a whorl of large bracts, with the flower petals being obscured by the lower calyx lobes. [3] The standard petal is less than on third the keel petal. [3] It is native to the south-west of Western Australia. [1] [5]

It was first described as Jansonia formosa by Richard Kippist in 1847, [2] [6] with a more detailed description by Kippist in 1851. [3] [7] It was transferred to the genus, Gastrolobium in 2002 by Chandler, Crisp, Cayzer, and Bayer. [3]

The specific epithet, formosum, is a Latin adjective, formosus -a, -um, which describes the plant as "well-formed", "handsome", or "beautiful". [8]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Gastrolobium formosum". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Chandler, G.T., Crisp, M.D., Cayzer, L.W. & Bayer, R.J. (2002). "Monograph of Gastrolobium (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae)" (PDF). Australian Systematic Botany. 15 (5): 697–698, Figs 25, 128. doi:10.1071/SB01010.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)[ dead link ]
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  6. Kippist, R. (1847). "A new genus of Leguminous plants, Jansonia". The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette. 19: 307.
  7. Kippist, R. (1851). "On Jansonia, a new Genus of Leguminosæ, from Western Australia". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 20: 384.
  8. "formosus,-a,-um". www.plantillustrations.org. Retrieved 26 August 2020.