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Genista monspessulana (L.) L.A.S.Johnson

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Genista monspessulana (L.) L.A.S.Johnson (1962)
Genista monspessulana (L.) L.A.S.Johnson

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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(L.) L.A.S.Johnson
L.
L.A.S.Johnson
1962
ICN
species
Genista monspessulana

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monspessulana

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Much-branched, usually evergreen shrub up to 2.5 m high; twigs villous, particularly when young, round and ribbed. Lvs usually sparsely to densely clothed in appressed hairs on both surfaces, sometimes subglabrous above, petiolate, 3-foliolate; leaflets shortly petiolulate, obovate, acute to obtuse and shortly mucronate, 7-20-(30) × (3)-4-10-(12) mm; terminal leaflet larger than lateral leaflets; stipules triangular to lanceolate, up to 2.5 mm long. Infl. a cluster, with axis < 10 mm long, of 4-7 fls, terminating short lateral branches; pedicels c. 3 mm long. Calyx densely hairy, bilabiate; upper lip deeply 2-fid; lower lip shortly 3-lobed. Corolla yellow to golden yellow, 9-13 mm long; standard glabrous. Pod densely villous, oblong, 3-6-seeded, c. 18-20 mm long, 18-20 mm long; seeds green to black, ellipsoid or orbicular, flattened, c. 2.5 mm diam.

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New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Genista monspessulana (L.) L.A.S.Johnson
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Genista monspessulana (L.) L.A.S.Johnson
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Genista monspessulana (L.) L.A.S.Johnson
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Genista monspessulana (L.) L.A.S.Johnson
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Genista monspessulana (L.) L.A.S.Johnson
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Genista monspessulana (L.) L.A.S.Johnson
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Genista monspessulana (L.) L.A.S.Johnson
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Genista monspessulana (L.) L.A.S.Johnson
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Genista monspessulana (L.) L.A.S.Johnson
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Genista monspessulana (L.) L.A.S.Johnson
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Genista monspessulana (L.) L.A.S.Johnson
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Genista monspessulana (L.) L.A.S.Johnson
United States
New Zealand
Otago Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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24 November 2008
19 August 2010
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