Gastrolobium

Gastrolobium
Gastrolobium celsianum (Swan River Pea)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Mirbelieae
Genus: Gastrolobium
R.Br.
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Brachysema R. Br.
  • Jansonia Kippist
  • Nemcia Domin

Gastrolobium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. There are over 100 species in this genus, and all but two are native to the south west region of Western Australia.

A significant number of the species accumulate monofluoroacetic acid - the key ingredient of the poison known commonly as 1080 which caused introduced/non native animal deaths from the 1840s in Western Australia. The controversy over the cause of the stock poisoning in that time involved the botanist James Drummond in a series of tests to ascertain the exact cause of the poisoning - which was determined to be caused primarily by the plants York Road poison [1] (G. calycinum) and Champion Bay poison [2] (G. oxylobioides).

In the 1930s and 1940s C.A. Gardner and H.W. Bennetts did considerable work identifying other species in Western Australia - leading to the publication of The Toxic Plants of Western Australia in 1956.[3]

Species

The genus Jansonia as well as Nemcia and Brachysema were incorporated into Gastrolobium in the publication of the Chandler monograph in 2002.[4] Also since initial descriptions in the 1840s - some of the species have been described initially asGastrolobium, then Oxylobium and back to Gastrolobium. Species (with common names in bold) include the following:

Groups

Chandler separates into groups:

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Aplin, T. E. H; Western Australia. Department of Agriculture (1967), York road poison and box poison, Western Australian Department of Agriculture], retrieved 1 November 2016
  2. ↑ "CHAMPION BAY POISON.". Western Mail. XLIII, (2,231). Western Australia. 15 November 1928. p. 42. Retrieved 1 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ Gardner, C. A. (Charles Austin); Bennetts, H. W. (Harold William); Gardner, C; Bennetts, H (1956), The toxic plants of Western Australia, West Australian Newspapers, Periodicals Division, retrieved 1 November 2016
  4. ↑ Chandler, G. T., M.D. Crisp, L.W. Cayzer, and R.J. Bayer. (2002). "Monograph of Gastrolobium (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae)." (PDF). Australian Systematic Botany. 15 (5): 619–739. doi:10.1071/SB01010.
  5. ↑ was previously DRF - Declared Rare Flora in Western Australia, not currently see http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/3894
  6. ↑ DRF - Declared Rare Flora in Western Australia see http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/3902
  7. ↑ DRF - Declared Rare Flora in Western Australia see http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/11034
  8. ↑ DRF - Declared Rare Flora in Western Australia see http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/3904
  9. ↑ Priority 2 see http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/3919
  10. ↑ was DRF - Declared Rare Flora in Western Australia but not currently - see http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/10887
  11. ↑ was DRF - Declared Rare Flora in Western Australia - now priority four - see http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/3928

References

Further reading

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