Английская Википедия:Chorizema rhynchotropis
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Chorizema rhynchotropis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a straggling, sprawling or erect shrub with linear, sharply-pointed leaves, and orange or red and pink and yellow pea flowers.
Description
Chorizema rhynchotropis is a straggling, sprawling or erect shrub with glabrous arching stems. Its leaves are linear, sharply-pointed, Шаблон:Cvt long Шаблон:Cvt wide and hairy. The flowers are orange, or red and pink and yellow, arranged in racemes on the ends of the branches, often forming long, leafy panicles, each flower on a pedicel Шаблон:Cvt long. The sepals are silky-hairy, about Шаблон:Cvt long, the lobes longer than the sepal tube. The standard petal is Шаблон:Cvt long, the wings Шаблон:Cvt long, and the keel Шаблон:Cvt long. Flowering occurs from August to November.[1][2]
Taxonomy and naming
Chorizema rhynchotropis was first formally described in 1848 by Carl Meissner in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae.[3][4] The specific epithet (rhynchotropis) means "a snout-shaped keel".[5]
Distribution and habitat
This chorizema grows on sandplains in sandy or gravelly soils in the Avon Wheatbelt and Geraldton Sandplains bioregions of south-western Western Australia.[1]
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