Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls

Branched evergreen shrub or small tree up to 5 m high; twigs ± glabrous but downy when young, green, rounded and only slightly angled. Lvs finely downy when young, becoming ± glabrous above and below at full size, sometimes remaining finely puberulent especially near midrib below, petiolate, 3-foliolate; leaflets elliptic, apiculate, 20–40 mm long; terminal leaflet slightly > laterals; petiolules 2–3 mm long. Fls in axillary fascicles or racemes of (1)–3–8–(12); pedicels 7–13 mm long. Calyx densely hairy, c. 1/2 length of corolla; upper lip shallowly 2-toothed, the lower ± entire. Corolla white, c. 15–18 mm long. Pod tomentose but ± glabrous when fully mature, grey to black, oblong, many-seeded, 30–60 mm long; seeds shiny black, ellipsoid, compressed, c. 5 mm long.

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

Flowering: (Apr.)–May–Oct.