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Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson

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Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson, Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 75: 276 (1945)
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson

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New Zealand
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G.Simpson
G.Simpson
1945
276
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Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson
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Carmichaelia astonii

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astonii

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Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson

Low-growing shrub with branches up to 6 dm. long; branchlets ascending, rigid, grooved, ± pilose, rounded at apex, much compressed, up to 12 cm. × 4-5-(8) mm. Lvs on young plants unifoliolate, sessile or nearly so, 4 × 2 mm., obcordate, pilose. Infl. of lax 3-7-fld racemes, peduncles and pedicels pubescent. Fls ± 10 × 5-7 mm. Calyx c. 5 × 3 mm., densely clad in ± appressed hairs; teeth 2-3 mm. long, narrow-triangular, acute; standard c. 10 × 7 mm., whitish, purple-veined, with basal purple blotch; wings c. 6 × 2-3 mm., purple-veined, auricles narrow, pointed; keel ± 8 mm. long, purplish, with darker veins, auricles rounded. Ovary glab. Pods (12)-15-20 × 4-7 mm., obliquely oblong, subturgid, dark brown to black; beak oblique, stout, subulate, up to 3 mm. long. Seeds 4-8, 2-3 mm. long, reniform, pale green to yellowish, sparsely black-spotted, becoming brownish.

Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson

Dwarf and spreading shrub, up to 0.2 × 0.5 m. Branches stout, ascending and horizontal, 10-25 mm diameter. Cladodes linear, striate, compressed, erect to spreading, green to green-bronze, frequently hairy when young (hairs sometimes retrorse), 30-95 × 4-8 mm; apex subacute to obtuse, yellow to yellow-green; leaf nodes 2-4. Leaves simple, obovate to oblanceolate, fleshy, green or green-bronze, present on seedlings, but absent on adult plants, 6-8 × 2-5.5 mm; adaxial and abaxial surfaces hairy; apex emarginate to retuse; base cuneate; petiole hairy, c. 2 mm long. Leaves on cladodes reduced to a scale, triangular, glabrous, <0.5 mm long; apex acute. Stipules free, triangular, 0.9-1 × 0.7-0.8 mm; adaxial surface glabrous; abaxial surface hairy, becoming glabrous with age; apex acute; margin hairy. Inflorescence a raceme, 1- 2(-4) per node, each with (l-)2-3(-4) flowers. Peduncle hairy, green, 7-8 mm long. Bracts triangular, glabrous, pale green, < 1 mm long; apex acute; margin hairy. Pedicel hairy, pale green, 2.5-8 mm long. Bracteoles at top of pedicel, green and occasionally flushed red, < 0.5 mm long; apex acute; margin hairy. Calyx campanulate, 4.5-5.5 × c. 2 mm; inner surface glabrous, green; outer surface hairy, green and occasionally flushed red. Calyx lobes narrow-triangular, green and usually flushed red, 2-2.5 mm long; adaxial surface densely hairy; apex acute; two upper lobes usually appressed to base of standard; three lower lobes spreading away from keel. Standard obovate, patent, positioned in central area of keel, weakly keeled, margins recurved, c. 12 × c. 8 mm; central area of adaxial surface purple, margins white, sometimes purpleveined; abaxial surface white with a darkened central part; claw pale green, c. 3 mm long; apex emarginate and occasionally mucronulate. Wings oblong, shorter than keel, c. 9 × c. 2.5 mm; distal area of adaxial surface purple, proximal area pale green; abaxial surface white, purple-veined; auricle triangular, pale green, 1-1.25 mm long; claw pale green, 2.5-3 mm long; apex acute. Keel (Fig. 1C) c. 10 × c. 3.5 mm; distal area of adaxial surface purple, proximal area white or pale green; auricle triangular, pale green, c. 1 mm long; apex obtuse; claw pale green, 3.5-4 mm long. Stamens 9- 11.5 mm long; lower filaments connate for c. 2h length and with outside filaments free for 4-4.5 mm. Pistil exserted beyond stamens, c. 12 mm long; style bearded on upper surface; ovary weakly falcate, glabrous; ovules (8—)13—14(—16). Pod oblong or oblanceolate, laterally compressed, light grey or brown, one or both valves often partially dehiscent at proximal end, 14-21(-23) × 4-6(-7.5) mm; beak on adaxial suture, stout, pungent, 1-2 mm long. Seeds oblong-reniform, (4-)6-8 per pod, olive green, green-yellow, or dull yellow, occasionally with black mottling, 2.5-3.5 × 1.5-3 mm. FL Jan-Dec, FT Dec-Apr.

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Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson

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1 January 2000
8 March 2004
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