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Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Genista stenopetala Webb & Berthel. (1836)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Teline stenopetala (Webb & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel. (1842)
- ≡ Cytisus stenopetalus (Webb & Berthel.) Masf. (1881)
- = Cytisus racemosus Marnock (1837)
- ≡ Cytisus maderensis (Webb & Berthel.) Masf. (1881)
- = Genista maderensis Webb & Berthel.
Description
Branched, evergreen shrub to small tree up to 6 m high; twigs sericeous, particularly when young, rounded and ribbed. Lvs sericeous on both surfaces but more densely below, petiolate, 3-foliolate; leaflets shortly petiolulate, elliptic to obovate, acute and shortly mucronate, 5–40 × 3–12 mm; terminal leaflet > lateral leaflets; stipules triangular, up to 2 mm long. Infls elongate, with axis 10–130 mm long, terminal, racemose, 10–30–(40)-flowered; pedicels 2–6 mm long. Calyx densely hairy, bilabiate; upper lip deeply 2-fid; lower lip shortly 3-lobed. Corolla yellow, 13–16–(18) mm long; standard glabrous or somewhat hairy about midvein and apex. Pod densely villous, oblong, 3–10-seeded, 20–40 mm long; seeds black, orbicular and flattened, c. 3 mm diam.
[From: Webb et al. (1985) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4 as Teline stenopetala (Webb & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.]
Biostatus
Exotic
Bibliography
Allan, H.H. 1940: A handbook of the naturalized flora of New Zealand. DSIR Bulletin. 83: 1–344. Government Printer, Wellington. [as Cytisus maderensis (Webb & Berthel.) Masf.; Cytisus stenopetalus (Webb & Berthel.) Masf.]
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
