- = Cytisus laburnum L.
Deciduous shrub or small tree to 7 m high; twigs densely clothed in appressed hairs, rounded, remaining green for several years. Lvs glabrous above, clothed in fine appressed hairs below, 3-foliolate; petioles mostly 30–70 mm long; leaflets elliptic, mucronate, (20)–30–60 mm long; terminal leaflet slightly > lateral leaflets; petiolules ± equal, 1–2 mm long. Infl. axillary, racemose, lax and pendulous, many-flowered; pedicels 5–15 mm long; bracteoles subtending calyx linear, 2–5 mm long, deciduous. Calyx densely clothed in appressed hairs, with 2 short lips. Corolla yellow, sometimes with dark markings, 15–20 mm long. Pod with appressed hairs, becoming almost glabrous when mature, oblong and flattened, 2–6-seeded, 40–70 mm long; sutures thickened; seeds black, c. 5 mm long.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Flowering: Sep.–Nov.