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Chorizema carinatum

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Chorizema carinatum
Near the South Coast Highway, Western Australia

Priority Three — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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]
  • Callistachys carinata Meisn.
  • Chorisema pubescens Turcz. orth. var.
  • Chorizema pubescens Turcz.
  • Oxylobium carinatum (Meisn.) Benth.

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.

Description

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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

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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]

Distribution and habitat

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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

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This pea is listed as "Priority Three" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Chorizema carinatum". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  2. ^ Bentham, George (1864). Flora Australiensis. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. p. 18. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "Chorizema carinatum". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  4. ^ "Callistachys carinata". APNI. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  5. ^ Meissner, Carl; Lehmann, Johann G.C. (1844). Plantae Preissianae. Vol. 1. Hamburg. p. 27. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  6. ^ "Chorizema carinatum". APNI. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  7. ^ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 158. ISBN 9780958034180.