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Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.

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Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f., Hooker's Icon. Pl. 14, t. 1332 (1881)
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.

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New Zealand
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1881
t. 1332
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Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
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Carmichaelia kirkii

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kirkii

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Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.

Spring- and summer-lfy semi-liane or scrambler up to 2-(4) m. long, with weak, openly branched, often interlacing stems. Branches up to 3 dm. long, internodes up to c. 8 cm. long; final branchlets subterete, c. 1 mm. diam., deeply striate, sparsely silky-hairy to glab. Lvs up to 25 × 8 mm., on ± silky petioles. Lflts 3-5, 4-5 × 3-4 mm., broadly obcordate, glab. or nearly so. Infl. a 2-6-fld open raceme, on slender ± silky peduncle; bracteoles ciliate; pedicels ± 2 mm. long. Fls 6-10 × 4-8 mm.; calyx c. 4 × 2 mm., campanulate; teeth narrow-triangular, acute, glab. without, ± villous within. Standard broad, 2-lobed, slightly > keel, white to cream, purple-veined and -blotched; keel ± 3 mm. broad, greenish white; wings 2-4 mm. long, whitish, faintly purple-veined; auricles pointed. Ovary glab. Pods 8-15 × 4-6 mm., turgid, ellipsoid; valves dark brown, replum thick; beak straight, stout, subulate, 4-5 mm. long. Seeds 2-4, ± 3 mm. diam.; white, sts tinged pale blue, ± heavily black-mottled.

Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.

Liana, up to 1-3 m tall, climbing, scrambling, and sprawling, or rarely a bushy shrub without support. Branches up to 40 mm diameter, ascending and spreading. Cladodes 70- 350(-420) × 1.7—3 mm, spreading and often divaricate, linear, striate, terete, green, green-bronze, or bronze, hairy or glabrous, apex obtuse; leaf nodes 4—12. Leaves 1—5-foliolate, present on seedlings and usually on inner parts of adult plants, terminal leaflet larger; lamina 4.5—8 × 2.5-6 mm, obovate to broad-elliptic, fleshy, green or bronze-green, adaxial surface glabrous, abaxial surface glabrous or with a few scattered hairs, apex emarginate, base cuneate; petiole 6-25 mm long, glabrous or hairy, green or brown-green; petiolule 0.5-0.9 mm long, glabrous, light green. Leaves on cladodes reduced to scales, < 0.6 mm long, broad-triangular, glabrous, apex subacute. Stipules 0.7-1 × 0.6-0.8 mm, free, triangular, adaxial surface glabrous, abaxial surface with few scattered hairs, apex subacute, margin hairy. Inflorescence a raceme, 1—2(—3) per node, each with (1—)2—5 flowers. Peduncle 2-6 mm long, glabrous to densely hairy, green or red. Bracts 0.5-1.2 mm long, triangular, sparsely hairy, apex obtuse or subacute, margin hairy. Pedicel 2.5—4 mm long, glabrous to densely hairy, green or red. Bracteoles c. 0.5 × c. 0.3 mm, narrow-triangular, on receptacle or lower part of pedicel, green or red, apex obtuse to subacute, margin hairy. Calyx 4—5 × c. 2 mm, campanulate, green and occasionally flushed red, outer surface glabrous or hairy. Calyx lobes 1.5- 2.5 mm long, narrow-triangular, green and usually flushed red, inner surface densely hairy, apex acute; two ventral lobes appressed to base of standard, three dorsal lobes spreading away from keel. Standard 8— 9 × 8.5—12 mm, orbicular or broad-obovate, patent, positioned in central part of keel, weakly keeled, margins recurved, apex emarginate or occasionally mucronulate; central part of inner surface red-purple, margins white, sometimes purple-veined; outer surface white with a darkened central part; claw 2— 3 mm long, green. Wings 6—8 × 2.5—3.5 mm, oblong, shorter than keel, apex obtuse; outer surface white, proximal part pale green; inner surface sometimes purple-veined; auricle 1—1.5 mm long, triangular, white or flushed green; claw 2-2.5 mm long, pale green. Keel (Fig. 2A) 8-9 × 3—3.5 mm, apex obtuse; distal part of inner surface red-purple, proximal part white or pale green; auricle c. 1 mm long, triangular, white or pale green; claw 3—4 mm long, pale green. Stamens 6.5-8.5 mm long; dorsal filaments connate for c. ¾ of length, outer stamens free for c. 2 mm. Pistil 8.5—10 mm long, exserted beyond stamens; style bearded on upper surface, ovary glabrous; ovules 8-10. Pods 12-18 × 4-5.8 mm, broad-elliptic, laterally compressed, spreading, dark brown, grey-brown, or yellow-brown, both valves partially dehiscent and remaining attached to lower replum; beak 3-6 mm long, on adaxial suture or in central apical position, stout, pungent-tipped. Seeds 2—3.5 × 1.7—2.5 mm, broad-elliptic, reniform, oblong-reniform or rounded, 2-5 per pod, off-white with black or dark purple mottling. Chromosome number In - 32 (Slade 1953). FL Nov-Jan, FT Jan-Jun.

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Carmichaelia gracilis J.B.Armstr.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia kirkii var. strigosa G.Simpson
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.

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Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
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02d3714d-7647-45de-8d12-6de247c4fa48
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
31 May 2004
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