Chorizema rhombeum R.Br.

Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling or twining or climbing plants, 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, 7-25 mm long, 6-8 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Pedicel present, 3-3.4 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent or present but early deciduous, 1-1.8 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 9-10 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 11-15 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, pink, red or orange, with some yellow, pink, red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 10-14 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 11-12 mm long, not auriculate, keel 9.5-11 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, hairy at least in part. Stamens ten; anthers 0.6-0.7 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4.6-6.8 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 9.2-10 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, glabrous, not beaked. Flowers in August, September, October, November and December. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest, Warren, Esperance and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.