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 | |
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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 | |
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Description edit
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]
Taxonomy edit
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 transerred the species to Chorizema as C. carinatum in Australian Systematic Botany.[6] The specific epithet (carinatum) means "keeled", referring to the leaves.[7]
Distribution and habitat edit
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]
Conservation status edit
This pea is listed as "Priority Three" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.[3]
References edit
- ^ a b "Chorizema carinatum". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
- ^ Bentham, George (1864). Flora Australiensis. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. p. 18. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
- ^ a b c "Chorizema carinatum". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
- ^ "Callistachys carinata". APNI. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
- ^ Meissner, Carl; Lehmann, Johann G.C. (1844). Plantae Preissianae. Vol. 1. Hamburg. p. 27. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
- ^ "Chorizema carinatum". APNI. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
- ^ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 158. ISBN 9780958034180.