Английская Википедия:Chorizema cytisoides
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Chorizema cytisoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect to low-lying or sprawling shrub with linear leaves and reddish-orange, yellow and purple flowers.
Description
Chorizema cytisoides is an erect to low-lying or sprawling shrub that typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Cvt. Its leaves are linear, Шаблон:Cvt long with the edges rolled under and silky-hairy on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in spike-like racemes up to Шаблон:Cvt long on the ends of branches. There are silky-hairy, lance-shaped bracts and bracteoles at the base of the flowers. The flowers are reddish-orange, yellow and purple, the sepals about Шаблон:Cvt long and silky-hairy, the upper two lobes joined for about half their length. The standard petal is about Шаблон:Cvt long, the wings and keel slightly shorter and the keel has an erect point on the end. Flowering occurs from July to December.[1][2]
Taxonomy
Chorizema cytisoides was first formally described in 1853 by Nikolai Turczaninow in the Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.[3][4] The specific epithet (cytisoides) means "Cytisus-like".[5]
Distribution and habitat
This species of pea grows on plains, slopes and gravelly ridges in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains and Jarrah Forest bioregions of south-western Western Australia.[2]
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