Notospartium Hook.f.

Details

Name scientific

Notospartium Hook.f., Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 9: 176, t. 3 (1857)

Preferred name

Carmichaelia R.Br.

Taxonomy reference

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.

Linked name

Notospartium

Nomenclature

Original authors

Hook.f.

Authors

Hook.f.

Publication place

Hooker, J.D. 1857: On Notospartium, a new genus of Leguminosae, from New Zealand. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 9: 176–177.

Year published

1857

Publication page

176, t. 3

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Notospartium Hook.f.

Type taxon

Notospartium carmichaeliae Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Notospartium

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Fabales

Family

Leguminosae

Genus

Notospartium

Subordinates

Descriptions

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

Notospartium Hook.f.

Description

Fls in racemes; calyx campanulate, 5-toothed; standard shortly reflexed, keel obtuse, wings < keel, stamens diadelphous. Ovary subsessile, ovules ∞, style curved. Pods linear, compressed, jointed, ind. Seeds one per joint, radicle with double flexure. Shrubs or small trees, lfless or nearly so, with slender grooved or striate pend. branches. Three spp., endemic to South Id.