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Sphaerolobium calcicola

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Sphaerolobium calcicola is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender, erect or climbing shrub with orange-red flowers from September to November.

It was first formally described in 2004 by Ryonen Butcher in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected in Yalgorup National Park in 1997. The specific epithet (calcicola) means "limestone-dweller".

Other Sphaerolobium plants

Grampians Globe Pea · Sphaerolobium alatum · Sphaerolobium benetectum · Sphaerolobium daviesioides · Sphaerolobium drummondii · Sphaerolobium fornicatum · Sphaerolobium gracile · Sphaerolobium grandiflorum · Sphaerolobium hygrophilum · Sphaerolobium linophyllum · Sphaerolobium macranthum · Sphaerolobium medium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sphaerolobium calcicola by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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