Carmichaelia

Plant Characteristics

Origin:	✈	New Zealand

Cultivation

Scientific Names

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Carmichaelia (after Capt. Dugald Carmichael, Scottish botanist, who wrote on the Flora of the Cape and Certain Islands)^CH. Fabaceae. Shrubs, leafless or usually becoming so, either erect or depressed, with reddish or purplish small fls., rarely cult^CH. There are about 20 species in New Zeal., very difficult of delimitation^CH. Lvs. 1- or 3-5-foliolate, wanting or deciduous after the bloom has passed: fls. in lateral racemes; calyx cup-shaped or bell-shaped, 5-toothed; corolla papilionaceous, the standard orbicular and usually reflexed, the wings oblong and obtuse and somewhat falcate, the keel oblong and incurved and obtuse; upper stamen free: pod small, leathery, oblong to orbicular^CH. C. grandiflora Hook. f. is much-branched, to 2m high, with compressed and grooved glabrous erect branches: lvs. pinnately 3-5- foliolate, appearing in spring and early summer and then caducous, the lfts. glabrous and obcordate-cuneate: fls. about 6mm long, in drooping racemes of 5-12, white or lilac^CH. C. odorata, Colenso, has pubescent drooping branches, and much smaller fls. in 10-20-fld. racemes: pod smaller (¼in, or less long) and longer-beaked^CH.

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Species

24 species^wp.

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