''Chorizema reticulatum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family
and is
endemic to the
southwest of Western Australia. It is a shrub with erect or ascending stems, crowded lance-shaped leaves, and pink and orange pea flowers.
Description
''Chorizema reticulatum'' is a shrub with erect or ascending stems up to long. Its leaves are crowded, lance-shaped, long and keeled on the lower surface. The flowers are pink and orange, arranged in
raceme
A raceme ( or ) or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers. The oldest flowers grow close to the base and new flowers are produced as the s ...
s on the edges of the branches and up to long, including a long
peduncle Peduncle may refer to:
*Peduncle (botany), a stalk supporting an inflorescence, which is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed
*Peduncle (anatomy), a stem, through which a mass of tissue is attached to a body
**Peduncle (art ...
each flower on a short
pedicel
Pedicle or pedicel may refer to:
Human anatomy
*Pedicle of vertebral arch, the segment between the transverse process and the vertebral body, and is often used as a radiographic marker and entry point in vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty procedures
...
. The sepals are silky-hairy, about long, the lobes almost as long as the sepal tube. The
standard petal is about twice as long as the sepals, the
wings nearly as long as the standard, and the
keel about the same length as the sepals. Flowering occurs from August to October.
Taxonomy and naming
''Chorizema reticulatum'' was first formally described in 1844 by
Carl Meissner in
Lehmann's ''
Plantae Preissianae
''Plantae preissianae sive enumeratio plantarum quas in australasia occidentali et meridionali-occidentali annis 1838-1841 collegit Ludovicus Preiss'', more commonly known as ''Plantae preissianae'', is a book written by Johann Georg Christian Leh ...
''.
The
specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
(''reticulatum'') means "with the appearance of a net", referring to the venation of the leaves.
Distribution and habitat
''Chorizema reticulatum'' grows on sand over laterite in the
Esperance Plains,
Jarrah Forest,
Swan Coastal Plain
The Swan Coastal Plain in Western Australia is the geographic feature which contains the Swan River as it travels west to the Indian Ocean. The coastal plain continues well beyond the boundaries of the Swan River and its tributaries, as a geol ...
and
Warren
A warren is a network of wild rodent or lagomorph, typically rabbit burrows. Domestic warrens are artificial, enclosed establishment of animal husbandry dedicated to the raising of rabbits for meat and fur. The term evolved from the medieval Angl ...
bioregions of southern Western Australia.
References
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reticulatum
Fabales of Australia
Flora of Western Australia
Plants described in 1844
Taxa named by Carl Meissner