Fabaceae tribe Mirbelieae

Callistachys

 

Callistachys Vent. (1805), Jard. Malmaison 2(20), 115.


1 sp., C. lanceolata Vent.
Gr.: calli-, beautiful and stachys, spike; refers to the conspicuous and attractive inflorescence.
South-western Australia, mostly near the coast.
Swampy places, often seasonal, and drainage lines.
J.R.Wheeler & Crisp (1987), Fl. Perth Region 1, 291, fig. 92, as Oxylobium lanceolatum (Vent.) Druce; Crisp & P.H.Weston (1987), Advances Legume Syst. 3, 83-117.
Large to arborescent shrubs with large broad leaves and conspicuous racemes of yellow flowers. Basal in a well-supported (morphology and DNA) clade with multiple apomictic embryo-sacs, called the Callistachys group, which includes Brachysema, Gastrolobium, Jansonia, and Nemcia. All these gerera are now
included within Gastrolobium (Chandler et al., Aust. Syst. Bot. 15: 619-739, 2002).
© M. Crisp

Callistachys lanceolata, © H. Thompson

Callistachys lanceolata, near Albany, WA


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