Erythrina ×sykesii Barneby & Krukoff

Deciduous tree up to 12–(18) m high; trunks with stout prickles; twigs round, smooth, clothed in short hairs when young but becoming glabrous, armed with prickles; prickles stout-based, scattered, 5–10 mm long. Lvs densely clothed with short medifixed hairs when young, becoming ± glabrous; leaflets broadly ovate to deltoid, ± acuminate, obtuse to truncate at base, entire, (7)–10–20 cm long; lateral leaflets somewhat smaller than terminal; stipules lanceolate, 5–10 mm long, caducous; stipels c. 1 mm long. Infls axillary, clustered at tips of branches, clothed in brown medifixed hairs when young; fls numerous, shortly pedicellate, subtended by caducous bracteoles. Calyx spathe-like, bilabiate, or irregularly shallowly toothed. Standard scarlet, c. 50–60 mm long; wings and keel c. 1/2 length of standard, orange to pale orange; filaments mauve. Pods not formed.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: Aug.–Oct.