Chorizema genistoides (Meisn.) C.A.Gardner

Scientific Description

Erect or prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 7-15 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Pedicel present, 2-2.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent or present but early deciduous, 1-1.5 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 4-4.7 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 8-9.2 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or red, with some yellow or red spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 7.5-8.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 6.5-8.3 mm long, not auriculate, keel 5-5.5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.4-0.5 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 3.5-6 mm long. Ovary hairy or glandular; style 4-5 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, bearded (with a tuft of hairs at apex), terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, not beaked. Flowers in July, August and September. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Yalgoo, Murchison, Avon Wheatbelt and Mallee IBRA regions.