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Carmichaelia curta Petrie

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Carmichaelia curta Petrie, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 25: 271 (1892 [1893])
Carmichaelia curta Petrie

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New Zealand
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Petrie
Petrie
1892
1893
271
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Carmichaelia curta Petrie
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Carmichaelia curta

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Carmichaelia curta Petrie

Slender rather sparingly branched ± sprawling shrub up to 1 m. long; branchlets 1-2 mm. diam., subterete, grooved, ± pilose when young. Lvs 1-3-foliolate; lflts small, narrow, ± pilose. Infl. of 8-10-fld congested racemes on pilose peduncles up to 10 mm. long (us. much shorter). Fls ± 4 × 3 mm. on pilose pedicels ± 1 mm. long. Calyx pilose, ± 1 × 1 mm.; teeth minute, ciliolate. "Corolla rather large, creamy-yellow striped with purple; the standard longer than the wings, broad, very obtuse" (fide Petrie, loc. cit.). "Standard 3 mm. broad, purple in 2 bands from base to tip, elsewhere white striped with purple" (fide Simpson loc. cit. 281). Keel greenish, purple at apex, auricles bluntly pointed; wings white, purple at apex, auricles bluntly pointed. Ovary pilose. Pods glab. or nearly so when mature, 3-4-(5) × 2-3 mm., light brown, ± turgid, breadth > depth; beak rather stout ± 1 mm. long, ± curved (the slender stylar portion long-persistent). Seeds (1)-2-(3), pale to yellowish green, black-mottled, ± 1 mm. diam.

Carmichaelia curta Petrie

Spreading, sprawling, sparsely branched shrub up to 0.5-1 × 1-2(-2.5) m broad; in disturbed habitats frequently suckering and forming patches up to 0.25 m tall and 1-1.5 m broad. Branches slender, decumbent, spreading, occasionally erect, arching and sprawling outwards, 10- 20 mm × 0.5-1.2 m. Cladodes linear, striate, slender, subterete to terete, olive green to brown-green, covered with purplish bloom when young, often brown or bronze in winter, becoming glabrous with age, 150-450 × 2-2.5 mm; leaf nodes 9-22. Leaves 1- 7-foliolate, fleshy; adaxial surfaces mottled greygreen or brown-green, hairy; abaxial surfaces pale green, hairy; apex emarginate to retuse; base cuneate to obtuse; margin sparsely hairy. Single or terminal leaflet broad-elliptic to ovate, 5-12 × 3-7 mm. Lateral leaflets broad-elliptic, ovate, or obovate, 3-4 × 1.75-2.5 mm; petiole hairy, 10-12 mm long; petiolule glabrous, 0.1-0.3 mm long. Leaves on cladodes reduced to a scale, triangular, glabrous, c. 2 mm long; apex acute. Stipules free, triangular to narrow-triangular, hairy or glabrous, 1.0-1.2 × c. 1.0 mm; apex acute; margin hairy or glabrous. Inflorescence a raceme, l(-2) per node, each with 9-11 flowers. Peduncle glabrous, covered with purplish bloom when young, 15-20 mm long. Bracts narrow-triangular, glabrous, c. 1 mm long; apex acute, with a tuft of hairs; margin sparsely hairy. Pedicel glabrous, reddish in colour, 2-3 mm long. Bracteoles at base of receptacle, narrow-triangular, flushed with red, 0.25-0.5 mm long; apex acute, with tuft of hairs; margin sparsely hairy. Calyx campanulate, 2.5-3 × c. 2 mm; inner and outer surfaces glabrous, green, usually flushed with red. Calyx lobes triangular, flushed red, c. 0.5 mm long; apex acute; margin hairy. Bud purple or white. Standard obovate, spreading above wings and keel, 3-4 × 3-4 mm; distal and central areas of adaxial and abaxial surfaces with purple blotch, proximal area pale green, sometimes purple-veined; apex retuse; margins white and recurved; claw pale green, c. 1.5 mm long. Wings broad-oblong, longer than keel, 3.5—4 × 1.5- 2 mm; distal and central areas of adaxial and abaxial surfaces white, with proximal area pale green, sometimes purple-veined; auricle rounded, pale green, c. 0.25 mm long; claw pale green, 1-1.25 mm long. Keel (Fig. IB) 3.5^.5 × c. 1.5 mm; distal area of adaxial and abaxial surfaces purple, central area white, proximal area pale green; auricle rounded, white, c. 0.25 mm long; claw pale green, c. 2 mm long. Stamens 3—4 mm long; lower filaments almost fully connate - alternate anthers subsessile and with free parts of filaments 0.2 mm long. Pistil similar length to stamens, c. 4 mm long; style with a ring of hairs below stigma; ovules 5-7(-8). Pod shortobovate or broad-elliptic, occasionally almost orbicular, dorsally compressed, valves inflated, brown or straw-coloured, indehiscent, 4—5.5 × 2-2.5 mm; beak on adaxial suture, straight or only slightly curved, stout, pungent, 1-2(-2.5) mm long. Seeds oblong-reniform, 1-2 per pod, olive green or orangebrown with black mottling, 1.5-2 × 1.25-1.5 mm. FL Oct-Feb(-Jul), FT Jan-Aug.

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Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia curta var. glabra G.Simpson
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Carmichaelia diffusa Petrie
Carmichaelia curta Petrie
Huttonella curta (Petrie) Kirk
Carmichaelia curta Petrie

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Carmichaelia curta Petrie
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1 January 2000
5 March 2004
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