Chorizema ilicifolium

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Fabales

Familia: Fabaceae
Subfamilia: Faboideae
Tribus: Mirbelieae
Genus: Chorizema
Sectio: C. sect. Chorizema
Species: Chorizema ilicifolium
Name

Chorizema ilicifolium Labill., 1800
Synonyms

Chorizema denticulatum Turcz.
Chorizema ilicifolium var. pandolfinii Grilli
Chorizema triangulare Lindl.

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Australasia
Regional: Australia
Western Australia
Introduced into:
India

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Labillardière, J.J.H. de 1800. Vol. 1. Voyage in search of La Pérouse : performed by order of the Constituent Assembly, during the years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794. 464 pp. London. BHL Reference page. : 1:404, t. 21.

Additional references

Lepschi, B. & Monro, A. (Project Coordinators) (2014). Australian Plant Census (APC) Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria. http://www.anbg.gov.au/chah/apc/index.html.
Govaerts, R. 1999. World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b). 1532 pp.. MIM, Deurne. ISBN 90-5720-098-8 (issue 1), ISBN 90-5720-099-6 (issue 2b). Reference page.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Chorizema ilicifolium in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Mar 09. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2021. Chorizema ilicifolium. Published online. Accessed: Mar 09 2021. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2021. Chorizema ilicifolium. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 09 Mar 2021.
Hassler, M. 2021. Chorizema ilicifolium. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Mar 09. Reference page.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Chorizema ilicifolium in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.

Vernacular names

Chorizema ilicifolium, commonly known as holly flame pea,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the coast of southern Western Australia. It is a slender, erect to spreading shrub with prickly, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and yellowish-orange and red pea flowers.
Description

Chorizema ilicifolium is a slender, erect to spreading shrub with thin branches. The leaves are glabrous, leathery, egg-shaped to lance-shaped, 19–25 mm (0.75–0.98 in) long, with prickly teeth or lobes on the edges, and often with a heart-shaped base. The flowers are yellowish-orange and red, arranged in loose groups in leaf axils or on the ends of branches. The sepals are 4–6.5 mm (0.16–0.26 in) long, the upper two curved and joined for about half their length. The standard petal is broadly kidney-shaped and twice as long as the sepals, the wings shorter than the standard, and the keel shorter than the sepals. Flowering occurs from July to October, and the fruit is an oblong pod up to 12 mm (0.47 in) long.[2][3]
Taxonomy and naming

Holly flame pea was first formally described in 1800 by Jacques Labillardière and the description was published in Relation du Voyage a la Recherche de la Perouse.[4][5] The specific epithet (ilicifolium) means "holly-leaved".[6]
Distribution and habitat

Chorizema ilicifolium grows on sand dunes and limestone hills along the south coast of Western Australia between Busselton and Esperance in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions.[2]
References

"Chorizema ilicifolium". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
"Chorizema ilicifolium Labill". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
Bentham, George (1864). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 2. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. p. 28. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
"Chorizema ilicifolium". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
Labillardière, Jacques (1800). Relation du Voyage a la Recherche de la Perouse. Paris: H.J Jansen. pp. 404–405. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 222. ISBN 9780958034180.