Flora of New Zealand Series

C. flagelliformis var. hookeri (Kirk) Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 1906, 116.

Type locality: South Makara Stream, Wellington. Type: W, 224/463, Kirk Herb. 847, T. Kirk; (misquoted by Simpson, loc. cit. 262, as 224/263, Kirk Herb. 647).

Erect shrub up to 2 m. tall, us. less, with spreading branches; branchlets subfastigiate, striate, 1-2 mm. diam., glab., plano-convex. Lvs (1)-3-(5)-foliolate; lflts obcordate-cuneate, sinus shallow to rather deep. Infl. us. cop. of (3)-5-(10)-fld, congested racemes on pubescent peduncles 2-3 mm. long. Fls ± 5 × 4 mm., on pubescent pedicels ± 1 mm. long. Calyx c. 1 × 1 mm., glab.; teeth minute, ciliolate. Standard broad, slightly > keel, dark purple at base, purple-veined; wings white, ± = keel, purple-veined, auricles rounded; keel whitish, purple-veined, auricles rounded. Ovary glab. Pods (6)-8-(10) × (3)-4-5 mm., compressed, ± ovate-oblong, sts slightly curved, brown to almost black; beak 1-2 mm., straight, ± obliquely placed. Seeds (1)-2-4-(6), pale yellow, ± heavily black-mottled.

DIST: N. Margins of coastal and lowland forest from a little south of Cape Turnagain on east and Paraparaumu on west coast.

Specimens with the ground-colour of the seeds reddish, but otherwise similar, occur in the western part of the range of the sp. Specimens with immature pods collected on D'Urville Id by L. B. Moore (BD 28731) may also belong here.