Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Dunstan Gorge. Type: W, 224/583, Kirk Herb. 748, "Dunstan Gorge, Nov. 1890, coll. D. Petrie".

Stout, erect, openly branched shrub up to c. 2 m. tall. Branchlets yellow-green, rigid, terete to plano-convex, ± 10 cm. × 3-4 mm., almost pungent-pointed. A few lvs occ. present on adults, 1-3-foliolate, pilose; terminal lflt up to c. 5 mm. long, lateral minute. Infl. of 1-3 short racemes per notch, (3)-5-(8)-fld, on pubescent to pilose peduncles. Fls ± 6 × 5 mm., on very short slender pubescent pedicels. Calyx campanulate, silky, ± 3 × 2 mm.; teeth minute, acute to subacute. Standard > keel, purple-flushed towards apex, paler to base, purple-veined; keel greenish white, purplish towards apex, auricles rounded; wings whitish, purplish towards apex, auricles rounded. Ovary glab. Pods obliquely oblong, turgid, dark brown, 8-10 × 4 mm., beak c. 1 mm. long, subulate. Seeds 1-2, greenish yellow, us. much black-mottled.

DIST.: S. Lowland to montane grassland and open places from lat. 43° 30' to 46°, east of divide.