Flora of New Zealand Series

oxylobium

Tall shrub; twigs densely sericeous, angular. Lvs irregularly verticillate or opposite, finely sericeous above and below when young but almost glabrous above when older, entire, obovate to elliptic, acute to obtuse or slightly retuse, mucronate, (30)-35-55-(80) mm long; midvein prominent; petiole 2-5 mm long; stipules sericeous, linear, 2-4 mm long. Infl. terminal, racemose, dense, with numerous fls; pedicels 3-5 mm long; bracts and bracteoles sericeous, deciduous. Calyx densely sericeous, calyx teeth = or > tube. Corolla orange-yellow, usually with reddish markings, c. 10-15 mm long. Pod densely sericeous, ribbed and very hard, dehiscent through the apex only, half-moon shaped, 6-8-seeded, 13-17 mm long; seeds dull reddish black, scarcely strophiolate.

N.: established in 3 areas of N. Auckland - Bowling Bay near north Cape, vicinity of Te Kao, Kaitaia, and Ahipara, and East Coast Bays to Waipapakauri N. of Auckland City.

W. Australia 1931

Waste places, scrubland, often in sandy coastal sites.

FL Nov.

O. lanceolatum has been previously known in N.Z. as O. callistachys, O. ellipticum and O. retusum.