Carmichaelia torulosa (Kirk) Heenan

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Name scientific

Carmichaelia torulosa (Kirk) Heenan, New Zealand J. Bot. 36: 56 (1998)

Preferred name

Carmichaelia torulosa (Kirk) Heenan

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

(Kirk) Heenan

Original authors

Kirk

Combination authors

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 torulosum Kirk

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Carmichaelia torulosa

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Fabales

Family

Leguminosae

Genus

Carmichaelia

Species

torulosa

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Canterbury pink broom

Synonyms

Notospartium torulosum Kirk

Descriptions

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

Notospartium torulosum Kirk

Description

Shrub up to 4 m. tall, with slender drooping lfless branches; branchlets hardly 2 mm. diam. Racemes slender, open, up to c. 5 cm. long, peduncle and pedicels glabrate. Fls purple-flushed and -veined, not crowded, c. 8 mm. long. Calyx glab. except on the broad obtuse teeth; standard rather narrow. Pods c. 1·5-2.5 cm. long, subterete, hardly 2 mm. diam., strongly torulose; beak long, slender; seeds up to 15 per pod, dark brown, c. 1 mm. long.