Gastrolobium formosum
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| Gastrolobium formosum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Gastrolobium |
| Species: | G. formosum |
| Binomial name | |
| Gastrolobium formosum | |
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Cryptosema pimeleoides Meisn. | |
Gastrolobium formosum is a small, trailing shrub, with red flowers, in the pea family (Fabaceae), which grows up to a metre high, on clays and loam in swamps and along river banks.[1] The inflorescence consists of head of four unstalked flowers which is sheathed by a whorl of large bracts, with the flower petals being obscured by the lower calyx lobes.[3] The standard petal is less than on third the keel petal.[3] It is native to the south-west of Western Australia.[1][5]
It was first described as Jansonia formosa by Richard Kippist in 1847,[2][6] with a more detailed description by Kippist in 1851.[3][7] It was transferred to the genus, Gastrolobium in 2002 by Chandler, Crisp, Cayzer, and Bayer.[3]
The specific epithet, formosum, is a Latin adjective, formosus -a, -um, which describes the plant as "well-formed", "handsome", or "beautiful".[8]