Gastrolobium formosum | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Faboideae |
Genus: | Gastrolobium |
Species: | G. formosum
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Binomial name | |
Gastrolobium formosum | |
Synonyms [4] | |
Cryptosema pimeleoides
Meisn. |
Gastrolobium formosum is a small, trailing shrub, with red flowers, in the pea family ( Fabaceae), which grows up to a metre high, on clays and loam in swamps and along river banks. [1] 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. [3] The standard petal is less than on third the keel petal. [3] It is native to the south-west of Western Australia. [1] [5]
It was first described as Jansonia formosa by Richard Kippist in 1847, [2] [6] with a more detailed description by Kippist in 1851. [3] [7] It was transferred to the genus, Gastrolobium in 2002 by Chandler, Crisp, Cayzer, and Bayer. [3]
The specific epithet, formosum, is a Latin adjective, formosus -a, -um, which describes the plant as "well-formed", "handsome", or "beautiful". [8]
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