Flora of New Zealand Series

golden tips

Evergreen shrub up to c. 2 m high; stems sparsely hairy when young, soon glabrous. Lvs sparsely hairy when young, ± glabrous when mature; leaflets elliptic to obovate, obtuse to acute, shortly mucronate, entire, 10-30 mm long; terminal petiolule 3-6 mm long; lateral petiolules c. 1 mm long. Raceme with numerous fls, elongate, diffuse; pedicels 4-8 mm long. Calyx ± glabrous but teeth tomentose within; upper teeth ovate and acute; lower teeth triangular, acuminate, ± = tube. Corolla yellow, reddish toward base, 12-15 mm long. Pod glabrous, irregularly elliptic-oblong, on a long slender stalk, transversely reticulate, 1-4-seeded, c. 25-40 mm long; seeds smooth, dark brown and partly black, oblong, 3-4 mm long; foot of seed aril c. 1.5 mm long.

N.: recorded as naturalised at one site only, in scrub on a hillside at Meeting of the Waters, Waiwakaiho R., Taranaki.

S.E. Australia 1981

FL Sep-Nov.