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Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Chamaecytisus proliferus subsp. palmensis (Christ) G.Kunkel (1980)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Cytisus proliferus var. palmensis Christ (1887)
- ≡ Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls (1977)
- ≡ Cytisus palmensis (Christ) Hutch.
- ≡ Chamaecytisus proliferus var. palmensis (Christ) O.Erikss., A.Hansen & Sunding
Description
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. as Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls]
Biostatus
Exotic
Phenology
Flowering: (Apr.)–May–Oct.
Bibliography
Howell, C. 2008: Consolidated list of environmental weeds in New Zealand. DOC Research & Development Series 292: 42. [as Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls]
Santos-Guerra, A.; Francisco-Ortega, J. 1994: On the nomenclature and types of Chamaecytisus proliferus (L.f.) Link (Fabaceae: Genisteae), a fodder shrub from the Canary Islands. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 115(3): 235–245.
