Chorizema dicksonii

Chorizema dicksonii, commonly known as yellow-eyed flame pea,[2] 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 oblong to lance-shaped leaves and red and orange flowers.

Chorizema dicksonii
In the Australian National Botanic Gardens
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. dicksonii
Binomial name
Chorizema dicksonii
Flower detail

Description

Chorizema dicksonii is an erect or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 30–100 cm (12–39 in). Its leaves are oblong to lance-shaped or almost linear, up to 19 mm (0.75 in) long and rigid, tapering to a sharp point on the end. The flowers are arranged in loose, spike-like racemes on the ends of branches, each flower on a short pedicel. The sepals are silky-hairy, about 8 mm (0.31 in) long, the upper two lobes joined for about half their length. The petals are red and orange, the standard petal nearly twice as long as the sepals, the wings slightly longer than the sepals, and the keel shorter and curved with an erect point on the end. Flowering occurs from August to December.[2][3][4]

Taxonomy

Chorizema dicksonii was first formally described in 1839 by Robert Graham in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal from specimens "raised from seeds obtained by Messrs. James Dickson and Sons, Edinburgh, from Swan River".[4][5]

Distribution and habitat

Yellow-eyed flame pea grows on rocky hillsides and ridges in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.[2]

References
  1. "Chorizema dicksonii". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
  2. "Chorizema dicksonii". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. Bentham, George (1864). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 2. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. p. 27. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
  4. Graham, Robert (1839). "Description of several New or Rare Plants which have lately flowered in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, and chiefly in the Royal Botanic Garden". Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. 26: 194–195. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
  5. "Chorizema dicksonii". APNI. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
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