Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Chorizema parviflorum
Common name
Eastern flame pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, and coastal headlands. Sydney area to Kiama.
Notes
Shrub to 0.5m tall, sometimes sprawling. Leaves with sharp tips. Branches angular, striate, and more or less hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1-4 cm long, 1-4 mm wide, often variable in size and shape on the one stem, margins curved down, lower surface hairy. Flowers 4-7 mm long, pea-shaped with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow with a reddish centre, in slender clusters. Flowers Winter to Summer.
Endangered population in the Wollongong and Shellharbour Local Government Areas. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species or a part of a threatened ecological community.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10167 (accessed 4 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Chorizema~parviflorum (accessed 4 January, 2021)
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