Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Upper basin of Clarence River. Type: W, Petrie Herb., B. C. Aston, 1915.

Shrub or small tree up to 10 m. tall, with slender pend. branches (upper branches ascending); branchlets compressed, c. 2.5-3·5 mm. diam. Racemes slender, rather open-fld, up to c. 5 cm. long; peduncle and pedicels glab. Fls purple-flushed and -veined, not crowded, up to 12 mm. long. Calyx glab. to pubescent, teeth narrow-triangular; standard broad. Pods c. 8-25 mm. long, c. 4 mm. broad, subterete, not torulose; beak short, subulate; seeds c. 2 mm. long, reddish yellow mottled with black.

DIST.: S. Valleysides and river-terraces in drainage area of Awatere and Clarence rivers.