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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Papilionaceae

PAPILIONACEAE

Infl. various; fls us. 5-merous, perfect and irregular. Sepals us. connate below into a tube. Adaxial petal (standard, vexillum) us. large, enclosing rest in bud; 2 lateral (wings, alae) us. free; 2 anterior us. connate along lower margins (keel, carina). Stamens 10, mon- or di-adelphous, or free (Sophora); anthers us. opening lengthwise. Ovary superior; fr. various, us. a dehiscent legume. Seeds with little or no endosperm. Herbs, shrubs, lianes or trees with us. compound lvs. Family widespread, mainly in temperate regions, with some 375 genera and over 5500 spp.

Key

1
Plant herbaceous or very softly woody
2
Plant a hard-wooded shrub or tree
3
2
Lflts 3, stems scrambling or climbing
1. CANAVALIA
Lflts 6 or more pairs, plant rhizomatous
2. SWAINSONA
3
Fls scarlet, pink or white, 5-8 cm. long
3. CLIANTHUS
Fls not so coloured, or if whitish then much smaller
4
4
Lvs ∞
5
Lvs few or absent
6
5
Fls yellow, pods lomentose
4. SOPHORA
Fls not yellow, pods not lomentose
8. CARMICHAELIA
6
Final branchlets stout, erect
5. CORALLOSPARTIUM
Final branchlets slender, spreading or drooping
7
7
Pods linear, jointed, ± torulose
6. NOTOSPARTIUM
Pods not linear, not jointed, not torulose
8
8
Peduncle woolly-hairy; fls c. 20 per raceme; pods ind.
7. CHORDOSPARTIUM
Peduncle finely pubescent to glabrate; fls few per raceme, or if 20 or more, then pods dehiscent
8. CARMICHAELIA

The N.Z. spp. may be found in fl. from early spring to late summer, in fr. from summer till late autumn.

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