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Platylobium formosum

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Platylobium formosum
Tab. of:A specimen of the botany of New Holland [1793]. Hand coloured engraving by James Sowerby from its first publication.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Genus:	Platylobium
Species:	Platylobium formosum

Platylobium formosum is an rambling or prostrate shrub found in south-eatern Australia. A pea family (Fabaceae) species, it is widely dispersed throughout coastal regions.

The plant shares common characteristics with the Bossiaea genus and is placed in a sub-family section, Bossiaeeae; these are commonly referred to as 'eggs and bacon peas' for the colouring of their flowers. the first publication of the species gave it a common name, Orange Flat-pea.

Description

The leaves vary from narrow to broad ovate form, 65 mm long and 15-20 mm wide. The upper surface of these may reticulous, scabrous or glabrous as the lower part which is sparsley haired. The margin of the leaf is complete

The species has been ascribed two subdivisions with a key:

• Platylobium formosum subsp. formosum

Whose leafets are greater than half the length and usually have a shape which is ovate and heart shaped at the base. They are more hairy on at the ovary, sutures and valves of the fruit than the following;

• Platylobium formosum subsp.parviflorum

Leaflets are narrow–ovate and not cordate as above, and the latter parts mentioned are glabrous to sparsely haired.

Distribution The plant is distributed throughout open country, up to the edges of rain forest, from the island of Tasmania to the mainland states of Victoria, New South Wales, and to the north in Queensland.

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Early descriptions

The plant in this 1789 painting by George Raper has been tentatively identified as Platylobium formosum

It is not known who first discovered P. formosum. It may have been discovered as early as 1789; in that year, HMS Sirius midshipman George Raper painted a flower that has since been tentatively identified as P. formosum.^[1]

The first botanical collection of material ascribable to the species was by First Fleet surgeon and naturalist John White, probably in 1793. White's collections were passed to botanist James Edward Smith, who published the first formal description of the species in his 1793 A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland (Spec. Bot. N. Holl. 17, t. 6.). White placed it in a new genus that he named Platylobium from the Latin platy- ("broad") and lobium ("portico") ....

“ BATHURST-RETURN TO PARRAMATTA, AUG. 30TH-SEP. 8TH, 1817 5th. Friday. .., Staphylea with obtuse oblong leaves. Of the Papilionaceae, Pultenaea villosa, P. stipularis, P. retusa, etc., are the most common species. Platylobium formosum and a new species with ovate, reticulated, silky leaves, of weak growth are occasionally observed on the dry sands. The Stylidium, so frequent...

Allan Cunningham's Journal quoted in Ida Lee's Early Explorers in Australia

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Reference

• "Platylobium formosum Sm". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.

Other media

• 
  Watercolour [1789?]

  by George Raper (1769-1797)

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  Detail from Tab VI of A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland.

  The explanation is given as 1. Calyx. 2. Bracteæ. 3. Standard. 4. One of the wings. 5. Keel. 6. Stamina. 7. Germen. 8. Ripe pod.

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  Watercolour [1917-1922]

  by Adam Forster, 1850-1928.

Platylobium obtusangulum

Platylobium obtusangulum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Genus:	Platylobium
Species:	Platylobium obtusangulum

Platylobium obtusangulum is an type/ shrub found in somepart??/ Australia.

Description