Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Waihopai River, Marlborough. Type: K, Munro [Monro] "banks of the Waihopai in sandy and rocky places".

Shrub up to 4 m. tall, with slender drooping lfless branches; branchlets compressed, up to 3·5 mm. diam. Racemes slender, sts branched, densely fld, up to c. 5 cm. long, peduncle and pedicels pubescent to glabrate. Fls pink-flushed and -veined, crowded, c. 8 mm. long. Calyx closely pubescent to subglab., teeth triangular; standard broad. Pods c. 8-17.5 mm. long, flat, c. 2.5 mm. broad, not torulose; beak long, slender; seeds up to 10 per pod.

DIST.: S. Valleysides and river-terraces in drainage area of Wairau and Awatere rivers.