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Chorizema parviflorum Benth.
Family Fabaceae
Subfamily Faboideae
Common name: Eastern Flame Pea

Chorizema parviflorum Benth. APNI*

Description: Erect or ascending shrub to 50 cm high with a stout rootstock; branches angular and striate, ± glabrous.

Leaves alternate, linear to narrow-obovate, 2–4 cm long, 1–4 mm wide, often variable in size and shape on the one stem, apex obtuse or emarginate, pungent-pointed, margins recurved, lower surface pubescent; stipules bristly, caducous.

Flowers in slender terminal racemes; bracts and bracteoles narrow-lanceolate. Calyx 2–3 mm long, sparsely pubescent, lobes shorter than tube. Corolla 4–7 mm long, mostly yellow with a reddish centre. Ovary shortly stipitate, ovules usually 10.

Pod c. 5–7 mm long, broadly and obliquely obovoid or oblong; seeds shining and reticulate.


Habitat
Photo J. & P. Edwards

Herbarium
Sheet

Flowering: spring.

Distribution and occurrence: Widespread but apparently not common, in heath and sclerophyll woodland and forest on heavy soils, north from the Sydney district.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NWS, CWS
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by B. Wiecek
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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