Chorizema dicksonii
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| Chorizema dicksonii | |
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| In the Australian National Botanic Gardens | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Chorizema |
| Species: | C. dicksonii |
| Binomial name | |
| Chorizema dicksonii | |
Chorizema dicksonii, commonly known as yellow-eyed flame pea,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with oblong to lance-shaped leaves and red and orange flowers.
Chorizema dicksonii is an erect or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 30–100 cm (12–39 in). Its leaves are oblong to lance-shaped or almost linear, up to 19 mm (0.75 in) long and rigid, tapering to a sharp point on the end. The flowers are arranged in loose, spike-like racemes on the ends of branches, each flower on a short pedicel. The sepals are silky-hairy, about 8 mm (0.31 in) long, the upper two lobes joined for about half their length. The petals are red and orange, the standard petal nearly twice as long as the sepals, the wings slightly longer than the sepals, and the keel shorter and curved with an erect point on the end. Flowering occurs from August to December.[2][3][4]