Chorizema cordatum
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| Chorizema cordatum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Chorizema |
| Species: | C. cordatum |
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| Chorizema cordatum | |
Chorizema cordatum, commonly known as heart-leaf flame pea,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. Noongar people know the plant as kaly.[3] It is a woody, erect, scrambling or climbing shrub with heart-shaped leaves, the flowers usually brightly coloured in yellow, orange and red.
Chorizema cordatum is an erect, scrambling or climbing shrub that typically grows up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) high and 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) wide. Its leaves are heart-shaped, 30–50 mm (1.2–2.0 in) long with a stipule at the base of the petiole, and often have wavy, toothed or lobed edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to 120 mm (4.7 in) long on the ends of branches or in leaf axils, the flowers 10–12 mm (0.39–0.47 in) wide, with various combinations of yellow, orange and red to pink. Flowering occurs from July to December.[4][5][6][7][8]
Taxonomy
Chorizema cordatum was first formally described in 1838 by John Lindley in Edwards's Botanical Register from specimens raised by Robert Mangles in London from seed collected in the Swan River Colony.[9][10] The specific epithet (caudatum) means "heart-shaped".[11]