Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Notospartium Hook.f.

NOTOSPARTIUM Hook. f., 1857

Fls in racemes; calyx campanulate, 5-toothed; standard shortly reflexed, keel obtuse, wings < keel, stamens diadelphous. Ovary subsessile, ovules ∞, style curved. Pods linear, compressed, jointed, ind. Seeds one per joint, radicle with double flexure. Shrubs or small trees, lfless or nearly so, with slender grooved or striate pend. branches. Three spp., endemic to South Id.

Key

1
Pods strongly torulose, up to 2.5 cm. long
Pods not or very weakly torulose, seldom > 1·75 cm. long
2
2
Pods flat; beak long, slender; infl. Dense
Pods subterete; beak short, subulate; infl. open
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