Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "shingly cuttings on roadside above Waitaki R. Dam. Kurow". Type: BD 45778A (G S. 134) G. Simpson and J. S. Thomson.

Branchlets ± 3-5 cm. × 1·5-2 mm.; spreading, rather less close-set. Fls up to 7 mm. long, paler; pods pale, suborbicular, ± 5 mm. diam. Seeds "light green, mottled with black". In type specimen now pale to dark brown with little evidence of mottling.

DIST.: S. Lowland to lower montane areas, east of divide, in dry places, river-terraces and open grassland from lat. 44° 30´ to 45° 30´.