Chorizema uncinatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an ascending or sprawling shrub with linear or narrowly oblong leaves and orange, pink or red, and red and yellow flowers.
Chorizema uncinatum is an ascending or sprawling shrub with branches under long and silky-hairy near the end. Its leaves are linear to narrowly oblong, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in spike-like racemes, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are silky-hairy and long. The flowers are orange, pink or red, and red and yellow, the standard petal long, the wings long, and the keel long. Flowering occurs from August to October.[1]
Chorizema uncinatum was first formally described in 1904 by Cecil Rollo Payton Andrews in the Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society from specimens he collected in the Stirling Ranges "in October 1903".[2] The specific epithet (uncinatum) means "hooked".[3]
This species of pea grows in flats and sandplains in sandy soils with gravel, clay or loam in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee bioregions of southern Western Australia.
Chorizema uncinatum is listed as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.