Chorizema
| Chorizema | |
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| Chorizema cordatum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Clade: | Mirbelioids |
| Genus: | Chorizema Labill.[1] |
| Type species | |
| Chorizema ilicifolium Labill.[2]
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| Species | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
Chorizema, commonly known as flame peas,[3] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Australia.
Description[edit]
Plants in the genus Chorizema are mostly shrubs or subshrubs, sometimes climbers, usually with simple leaves arranged in opposite pairs, the flowers usually arranged in racemes, each flower on a short pedicel. The sepal lobes are more or less equal, the upper pair broader and partly joined, the standard petal more or less round or kidney-shaped, the wings oblong and much longer than the keel. The fruit is an oval pod containing 4 to 32 seeds.[3][4][5]
Taxonomy[edit]
The genus Chorizema was first formally described in 1800 by Jacques Labillardière in his Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse, and the first species he described (the type species) was Chorizema ilicifolium.[6][7] The genus name (Chorizema) means "divided thread", Labillardière having noted that the stamens are separate from each other.[8]
Distribution[edit]
Flame peas are endemic to the south-west of Western Australia, apart from C. parviflorum that occurs in New South Wales and Queensland.[3][9]
Use in horticulture[edit]
This genus of peas is valued in cultivation for their colourful flowers. Most species do not tolerate frost, and in temperate regions require the protection of glass.[10]
Species list[edit]
The following species and subspecies are accepted by the Australian Plant Census as of June 2020:[1]
- Chorizema aciculare (DC.) C.A.Gardner
- Chorizema aciculare (DC.) C.A.Gardner subsp. aciculare
- Chorizema aciculare subsp. laxum J.M.Taylor & Crisp
- Chorizema carinatum (Meisn.) J.M.Taylor & Crisp
- Chorizema circinale J.M.Taylor & Crisp
- Chorizema cordatum Lindl.
- Chorizema cytisoides Turcz.
- Chorizema dicksonii Graham
- Chorizema diversifolium A.DC.
- Chorizema genistoides (Meisn.) C.A.Gardner
- Chorizema glycinifolium (Sm.) Druce
- Chorizema humile Turcz.
- Chorizema ilicifolium Labill.
- Chorizema nanum (Andrews) Sims
- Chorizema nervosum T.Moore
- Chorizema obtusifolium (Sweet) J.M.Taylor & Crisp
- Chorizema parviflorum Benth.
- Chorizema racemosum (Meisn.) J.M.Taylor & Crisp
- Chorizema reticulatum Meisn.
- Chorizema retrorsum J.M.Taylor & Crisp
- Chorizema rhombeum R.Br.
- Chorizema rhynchotropis Meisn.
- Chorizema spathulatum (Meisn.) J.M.Taylor & Crisp
- Chorizema trigonum Turcz.
- Chorizema ulotropis J.M.Taylor & Crisp
- Chorizema uncinatum C.R.P.Andrews
- Chorizema varium Paxton
Hybrids[edit]
The following hybrids have been described:[11]
- Chorizema ×lowii Hort. ex Rev.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Chorizema". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
- ^ "Chorizema Labill". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
- ^ a b c Carrick, Margaret G.; Fuhrer, Bruce A. (2009). Wildflowers of Southern Western Australia (3rd ed.). Dural, N.S.W.: Rosenberg Publishing. pp. 58–59. ISBN 9781877058844.
- ^ Wiecek, Barbara. "Genus Chorizema". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
- ^ "Chorizema". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
- ^ "Chorizema". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
- ^ Jacques, Labillardière (1800). Relation du Voyage a la Recherche de la Perouse. Vol. 1. Paris. p. 21. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
- ^ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 69. ISBN 9780958034180.
- ^ "Chorizema parviflorum". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
- ^ RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 978-1405332965.
- ^ "The Plant List entry for Chorizema". The Plant List. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Missouri Botanical Garden. 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
External links[edit]
Media related to Chorizema at Wikimedia Commons- Pink, A. (2004). Gardening for the Million. Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
- Chorizema at Tropicos
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