Flora of New Zealand Series

Edwardsia grandiflora Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9, 1808, 299.

E. tetraptera (J. Mill.) W. R. B. Oliver in T.N.Z.I. 53, 1921, 364.

Tree up to c. 12 m. tall, trunk up to 6 dm. diam. Branches spreading, young branchlets clad in fulvellous tomentum (juveniles not of divaricating form). Lvs up to 15 cm. or more long, with 10-20 pairs of lflts, sts more. Lflts 1·5-3·5 cm. × 5-8 mm., ovate to elliptic-oblong, clad above and below with silky appressed hairs, midrib distinct below. Fls up to 5 cm. long, in 4-10-fld racemes, golden yellow. Calyx 1-1·5 cm. long, clad in appressed silky hairs; standard c. 3 cm. long; wings c. 3·5 cm. long; keel c. 4·5 cm. long. Pods up to 2 dm. long, broadly winged; seeds 6 or more, yellowish, c. 7 mm. long.

DIST.: N. Streamsides, forest margins, lowland, from East Cape to lat. 40° 30'.