Flora of New Zealand Series

Type: BD 45708A (G. S. 184), plant collected by A. Wastney and grown at Dunedin.

More openly branched; branchlets less sinuate, distinctly pubescent. Lflts us. 7, pubescent, ± glaucous below, ± rounded or truncate at apex. Racemes and calyx densely appressed-hairy. Ovary and young pods pilose.

DIST.: Type locality: Longford Bridge near Murchison.

Simpson gives a longer description "drawn up from [A. Wastney's] fresh specimens and from plants in cultivation. Nothing is yet known of its further distribution."

Simpson (loc. cit. 242) treats Kirk's C. grandiflora var. divaricata (Stud. Fl. 1899, 111) as a synonym of C. angustata. Kirk's material came from "Mount White and valley of the Poulter, 2300 ft., Enys! Near Greymouth, Westland, Helms!" His description includes: "Branches and branchlets divaricating at right angles . . . compressed at tips . . . Racemes 5-10-flowered, slender. Flowers small. Pods elliptic-oblong, narrowed at both ends; beak very short."

Cheeseman (Man. N.Z. Fl. 1925, 520) accepts Kirk's disposition and diagnosis, except that he gives the racemes as 5-15-fld, and adds specimens collected at Fox River by Townson. Cockayne (N.Z. Plants and their Story ed. 3, 1927, 163) who knew the localities well, raised the var. to specific rank, as C. divaricata. The status of the plants concerned needs further study.