Chorizema rhynchotropis

Chorizema rhynchotropis is a straggling, sprawling or erect shrub with glabrous arching stems. Its leaves are linear, sharply-pointed, 4–18 mm (0.16–0.71 in) long 0.8–1.2 mm (0.031–0.047 in) wide and hairy. The flowers are orange, or red and pink and yellow, arranged in racemes on the ends of the branches, often forming long, leafy panicles, each flower on a pedicel 3.0–6.5 mm (0.12–0.26 in) long. The sepals are silky-hairy, about 6.5 mm (0.26 in) long, the lobes longer than the sepal tube. The standard petal is 11–13 mm (0.43–0.51 in) long, the wings 9–10 mm (0.35–0.39 in) long, and the keel 10.0–10.9 mm (0.39–0.43 in) long. Flowering occurs from August to November.

This chorizema grows on sandplains in sandy or gravelly soils in the Avon Wheatbelt and Geraldton Sandplains bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

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