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