Gastrolobium formosum

Priority Three — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this 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
(Kippist ex Lindl.) G.Chandler & Crisp[2][3]
Synonyms[4]

Cryptosema pimeleoides Meisn.
Jansonia formosa Kippist
Jansonia pimeleoides (Meisn.) C.A.Gardner

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]


References

  1. 1 2 3 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.
  2. 1 2 "Gastrolobium formosum". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 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)
  4. ↑ "Gastrolobium formosum (Kippist) G.Chandler & Crisp | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  5. ↑ "Gastrolobium formosa occurrence data". avh.ala.org.au. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  6. ↑ Kippist, R. (1847). "A new genus of Leguminous plants, Jansonia". The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette. 19: 307.
  7. ↑ Kippist, R. (1851). "On Jansonia, a new Genus of Leguminosæ, from Western Australia". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 20: 384.
  8. ↑ "formosus,-a,-um". www.plantillustrations.org. Retrieved 26 August 2020.


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