Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Carmichaelia torulosa (Kirk) Heenan, New Zealand J. Bot. 36: 56 (1998)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Notospartium torulosum Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 117 (1899)
Vernacular Name(s):
Canterbury pink broom
Description
Shrub up to 4 m. tall, with slender drooping lfless branches; branchlets hardly 2 mm. diam. Racemes slender, open, up to c. 5 cm. long, peduncle and pedicels glabrate. Fls purple-flushed and -veined, not crowded, c. 8 mm. long. Calyx glab. except on the broad obtuse teeth; standard rather narrow. Pods c. 1·5–2.5 cm. long, subterete, hardly 2 mm. diam., strongly torulose; beak long, slender; seeds up to 15 per pod, dark brown, c. 1 mm. long.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Notospartium torulosum Kirk]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
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 Critical]
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 Notospartium torulosum Kirk]
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.
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.
