Chorizema carinatum | |
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Near the South Coast Highway, Western Australia | |
Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Faboideae |
Genus: | Chorizema |
Species: | C. carinatum
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Binomial name | |
Chorizema carinatum | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Chorizema carinatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with sharply-pointed leaves and bright yellow flowers.
Chorizema carinatum is an erect or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 10–60 cm (3.9–23.6 in). The leaves are scattered, leathery, oblong or lance-shaped and up to 25 mm (0.98 in) long with a small, rigid, sharply-pointed, down-turned tip on the ends. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches in racemes 25–50 mm (0.98–1.97 in) long, each flower on a short pedicel. The sepals are 6.0–8.5 mm (0.24–0.33 in) long and silky-hairy, the petals yellow and often barely longer than the sepals. Flowering occurs from October to December. [2] [3]
This species was first formally described in 1844 by Carl Meissner who gave it the name Callistachys carinata in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected in Kent in 1840. [4] [5] In 1992, Joan Taylor and Michael Crisp transferred the species to Chorizema as C. carinatum in Australian Systematic Botany. [6] The specific epithet (carinatum) means "keeled", referring to the leaves. [7]
Chorizema carinatum grows in sand and sandy clay in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia. [3]
This pea is listed as " Priority Three" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. [3]
Chorizema carinatum | |
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Near the South Coast Highway, Western Australia | |
Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Faboideae |
Genus: | Chorizema |
Species: | C. carinatum
|
Binomial name | |
Chorizema carinatum | |
Synonyms [1] | |
|
Chorizema carinatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with sharply-pointed leaves and bright yellow flowers.
Chorizema carinatum is an erect or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 10–60 cm (3.9–23.6 in). The leaves are scattered, leathery, oblong or lance-shaped and up to 25 mm (0.98 in) long with a small, rigid, sharply-pointed, down-turned tip on the ends. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches in racemes 25–50 mm (0.98–1.97 in) long, each flower on a short pedicel. The sepals are 6.0–8.5 mm (0.24–0.33 in) long and silky-hairy, the petals yellow and often barely longer than the sepals. Flowering occurs from October to December. [2] [3]
This species was first formally described in 1844 by Carl Meissner who gave it the name Callistachys carinata in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected in Kent in 1840. [4] [5] In 1992, Joan Taylor and Michael Crisp transferred the species to Chorizema as C. carinatum in Australian Systematic Botany. [6] The specific epithet (carinatum) means "keeled", referring to the leaves. [7]
Chorizema carinatum grows in sand and sandy clay in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia. [3]
This pea is listed as " Priority Three" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. [3]