Carmichaelia glabrescens (Petrie) Heenan

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Name scientific

Carmichaelia glabrescens (Petrie) Heenan, New Zealand J. Bot. 36: 56 (1998)

Preferred name

Carmichaelia glabrescens (Petrie) Heenan

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Heenan

Original authors

Petrie

Authors

(Petrie) Heenan

Publication place

Heenan, P.B. 1998: An emended circumscription of Carmichaelia, with new combinations, a key, and notes on hybrids. New Zealand Journal of Botany 36(1): 53–63.

Year published

1998

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Notospartium glabrescens Petrie

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Carmichaelia glabrescens

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Fabales

Family

Leguminosae

Genus

Carmichaelia

Species

glabrescens

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Pink tree broom

Synonyms

Notospartium glabrescens Petrie

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Notospartium glabrescens Petrie

Description

Shrub or small tree up to 10 m. tall, with slender pend. branches (upper branches ascending); branchlets compressed, c. 2.5-3·5 mm. diam. Racemes slender, rather open-fld, up to c. 5 cm. long; peduncle and pedicels glab. Fls purple-flushed and -veined, not crowded, up to 12 mm. long. Calyx glab. to pubescent, teeth narrow-triangular; standard broad. Pods c. 8-25 mm. long, c. 4 mm. broad, subterete, not torulose; beak short, subulate; seeds c. 2 mm. long, reddish yellow mottled with black.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.