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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Gastrolobium |
| Species: | G. formosum
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Cryptosema pimeleoides Meisn. | |
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]
References
edit- ^ a b c Spooner, A. (11 February 2004). "FloraBase—the Western Australian Flora: Gastrolobium formosa". florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au. Western Australian Herbarium, Biodiversity and Conservation Science. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
- ^ a b "Gastrolobium formosum". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
- ^ a b c d e Chandler, G.T., Crisp, M.D., Cayzer, L.W. & Bayer, R.J. (2002). "Monograph of Gastrolobium (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae)" (PDF). Australian Systematic Botany. 15 (5): 697–698, Figs 25, 128. doi:10.1071/SB01010.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)[dead link] - ^ "Gastrolobium formosum (Kippist) G.Chandler & Crisp | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
- ^ "Gastrolobium formosa occurrence data". avh.ala.org.au. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
- ^ Kippist, R. (1847). "A new genus of Leguminous plants, Jansonia". The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette. 19: 307.
- ^ Kippist, R. (1851). "On Jansonia, a new Genus of Leguminosæ, from Western Australia". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 20: 384.
- ^ "formosus,-a,-um". www.plantillustrations.org. Retrieved 26 August 2020.