Chorizema rhynchotropis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a straggling, sprawling or erect shrub with linear, sharply-pointed leaves, and orange or red and pink and yellow pea flowers.
Chorizema rhynchotropis is a straggling, sprawling or erect shrub with glabrous arching stems. Its leaves are linear, sharply-pointed, long 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 long. The sepals are silky-hairy, about long, the lobes longer than the sepal tube. The standard petal is long, the wings long, and the keel long. Flowering occurs from August to November.[1]
Chorizema rhynchotropis was first formally described in 1848 by Carl Meissner in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae.[2] [3] The specific epithet (rhynchotropis) means "a snout-shaped keel".[4]
This chorizema grows on sandplains in sandy or gravelly soils in the Avon Wheatbelt and Geraldton Sandplains bioregions of south-western Western Australia.