''Gastrolobium formosum'' is a small, trailing shrub, with red flowers, in the pea family (

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), which grows up to a metre high, on clays and loam in swamps and along river banks. The inflorescence consists of head of four unstalked flowers which is sheathed by a whorl of large bracts, with the flower petals being obscured by the lower calyx lobes. The standard petal is less than on third the keel petal. It is native to the south-west of Western Australia. It was first described as ''Jansonia formosa'' by

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in 1847, with a more detailed description by Kippist in 1851. It was transferred to the genus, '' Gastrolobium'' in 2002 by

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, Cayzer, and Bayer. The specific epithet, ''formosum'', is a Latin adjective, ''formosus -a, -um'', which describes the plant as "well-formed", "handsome", or "beautiful".

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q15479024 formosum Rosids of Western Australia Endemic flora of Australia Plants described in 1847 Taxa named by Richard Kippist Taxa named by John Lindley