Brachysema


Gastrolobium celsianum, formerly known as Brachysema lanceolatum


Plant Characteristics
Cultivation
Scientific Names

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There is no longer a genus named Brachysema. See below for details.

Brachysema is a plant genus in the family Fabaceae which was first formally described by botanist Robert Brown in 1811. In 1999, several species were transferred to the genus Leptosema, and in 2002 the remaining species were transferred to the genus Gastrolobium.

Species

The following is a list of species formerly included in the genus, together with their current names.

References


Read about Brachysema in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Brachysema (short standard, referring to the flower). Leguminosae. Shrubs or undershrubs, Australian, making good pillar or climbing plants for greenhouse; allied to Baptisia and Thermopsis. Evergreen: Lvs. opposite or alternate, simple, sometimes reduced to scales: fls. red or yellowish or almost black, solitary or several together or sometimes crowded on short radical scapes, the keel turned upward by the curving of the pedicels; stamens not united with each other: fr. ovoid or elongated, turgid.—About 14 species, a few of which are known in gardening literature. B. acuminatum, Truff. (It. speciosum, Hort.), is now offered as a good red-fld. pillar plant: sub-frutescent: Lvs. opposite, oval-elliptic, entire, more or less narrowed to base and short-petioled, the older ones long-acuminate: fls. deep carmine-red to nearly purple, in short axillary clusters, the corolla much exceeding the yellow-green calyx, the standard very small. H.H. 1866:413.—An attractive free-flowering species.


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