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Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls

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(Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
Christ
F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
1977
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Chamaecytisus palmensis

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palmensis

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Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls

Branched evergreen shrub or small tree up to 5 m high; twigs ± glabrous but downy when young, green, rounded and only slightly angled. Lvs finely downy when young, becoming ± glabrous above and below at full size, sometimes remaining finely puberulent especially near midrib below, petiolate, 3-foliolate; leaflets elliptic, apiculate, 20-40 mm long; terminal leaflet slightly > laterals; petiolules 2-3 mm long. Fls in axillary fascicles or racemes of (1)-3-8-(12); pedicels 7-13 mm long. Calyx densely hairy, c. 1/2 length of corolla; upper lip shallowly 2-toothed, the lower ± entire. Corolla white, c. 15-18 mm long. Pod tomentose but ± glabrous when fully mature, grey to black, oblong, many-seeded, 30-60 mm long; seeds shiny black, ellipsoid, compressed, c. 5 mm long.

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Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
Chamaecytisus palmensis (H.Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
Chamaecytisus palmensis (H.Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls

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Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
New Zealand
Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
Norfolk Island

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editorial
Page 643: Tree lucerne has usually been known in N.Z. as Cytisus proliferus.Chamaecytisus is now accepted as a genus distinct from Cytisus. Two or 3 Chamaecytisus spp. occur on the Canary Is; N.Z. plants lack the silky villous undersurface of the lvs which characterises C. proliferus (L.) Link and also better match C. palmensis in lf width and shape, and in fl. length. C. palmensis is sometimes treated as a var. of C. proliferus, but the 2 taxa have been grown from seed in N.Z. and appear very distinct.

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51280f8d-61c4-4897-8413-03a877c68a60
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1 January 2000
10 August 2023
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