Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Fabales Bromhead
Family
Leguminosae
Genus
Carmichaelia R.Br.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Carmichaelia crassicaulis Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 48 (1864) – as crassicaule
Synonymy:
  • = Corallospartium crassicaule (Hook.f.) J.B.Armstr., Trans. New Zealand Inst. 13: 333 (1880 [1881])
 Description

Rigid shrub up to 2 m. tall, with stout subcylindric branches and stout, erect, yellowish, deeply grooved branchlets with alt. notches, somewhat flattened, up to 1 cm. or more diam. Lvs small, rarely seen; of juveniles suborbicular, of adults about oblong. Infl. of up to 20 densely fascicled creamy fls with densely pilose pedicels and calyx. Calyx turbinate, bluntly 5-toothed, c. 4 mm. long; standard c. 5–6 mm. long, reflexed; keel about 6 mm. long, incurved, wings falcate, stouter than keel. Ovary villous, ovules 2–4. Pods c. 6–7 mm. long, us. one-seeded, ind.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Corallospartium crassicaule (Hook.f.) J.B.Armstr.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Carmichaelia crassicaulis Hook.f.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)2
Total2
 Bibliography
Armstrong, J.B. 1881: On the genus Corallospartium. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 13: 333–334.
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Heenan, P.B. 1995: Typification of names in Carmichaelia, Chordospartium, Corallospartium, and Notospartium (Fabaceae - Galegeae) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 33: 439–454.
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.
Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W. 2007: A new combination in Carmichaelia (Fabaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 45: 265–268.
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
Kirk, T. 1884 ("1883"): Notes on Carmichælia, with Descriptions of new Species. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 16: 378–382.
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.