Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Fabales Bromhead
Family
Leguminosae
Genus
Carmichaelia R.Br.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Carmichaelia stevensonii (Cheeseman) Heenan, New Zealand J. Bot. 36: 56 (1998)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Chordospartium stevensonii Cheeseman, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 43: 175 (1910 [1911]) – as Chordospartium Stevensoni
Vernacular Name(s):
Cord broom; weeping broom
 Description

Tree up to 8 m. tall, trunk up to c. 3 dm. diam. Branches pend., branchlets slender, deeply grooved, nearly terete, c. 1·75 mm. diam. Racemes solitary or fascicled, up to 8 cm. long; peduncle densely pilose, pedicels very short. Fls c. 9 mm. long, pale lavender; calyx cup-shaped, pilose, teeth minute; standard orbicular, reflexed; wings dolabriform, falcate, obtuse, < keel; keel incurved, obtuse, about = standard. Ovary silky-pubescent; style long, slender, incurved, ovules up to 5. Pods c. 5 mm. long, turgid, rhomboid to suborbicular; seed us. solitary.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Chordospartium stevensonii Cheeseman]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Cheeseman, T. F. 1911 ("1910"): New species of plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 43: 175–178.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Nationally Endangered]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Nationally Endangered]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Nationally Endangered]
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. [as Chordospartium stevensonii Cheeseman]
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.