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Carmichaelia appressa

{{Short description|Species of legume}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

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|image_caption = Stems lying flat & flowers

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|image2_caption = Seeds still held by the plant

|status = NU

|status_system = NZTCS

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|taxon = Carmichaelia appressa

|authority = G.Simpson

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|range_map_caption = Occurrence data from AVH

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Carmichaelia appressa (common name prostrate broom){{Cite web|url=http://nzpcn.org.nz/flora_details.aspx?ID=407|title=Carmichaelia appressa {{!}} New Zealand Plant Conservation Network|website=nzpcn.org.nz|access-date=2019-11-29}} is a species of pea in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in the South Island of New Zealand. Its conservation status (2018) is "At Risk - Naturally Uncommon" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.

Description

Carmichaelia appressa is a "spreading, closely-branched plant... forming more or less circular mats to 2 m. diameter" which are closely pressed to the ground. It flowers in summer.

Taxonomy

The species was first described by George Simpson in 1945. A lectotype, [https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.chr%2045580%20a?searchUri=filter%3Dname%26so%3Dps_group_by_genus_species%2Basc%26Query%3DCarmichaelia%2Bappressa CHR_45580_A] was collected by Simpson in 1938,{{cite web|url=https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.chr%2045580%20a?searchUri=filter%3Dname%26so%3Dps_group_by_genus_species%2Basc%26Query%3DCarmichaelia%2Bappressa|title=Lectotype of Carmichaelia appressa G.Simpson (family FABACEAE)|access-date=2019-11-29|publisher=JSTOR Global Plants}} in February from Ellesmere Spit, Canterbury.{{Cite web|url=https://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/94d2bd36-82af-4961-acd9-e046d8f0f02d|title=CHR 45580 A (Lectotype), Australasian Virtual Herbarium, Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria|website=avh.ala.org.au|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-11-30}}

Habitat

Its habitat is "shingle beaches close to the sea".

References

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{{cite journal|author=Simpson, G. |date=1945| journal=Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand|volume=75 |issue=2 |title=A revision of the genus Carmichaelia |pages=231–287 [263] |url=http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/image/rsnz_75/rsnz_75_02_0351_0263_ac_01.html}}

{{Cite journal|last=de Lange|first=P.J.|author1-link=Peter James de Lange |last2=Rolfe|first2=J.R.|last3=Barkla|first3=J. W.|last4=Courtney|first4=S.P.

|last5=Champion|first5=P.D.|last6=Perrie|first6=L.R.|last7=Beadel|first7=S.M.|last8=Ford|first8=K.A.|last9=Breitwieser|first9=I.|last10=Schönberger|first10=I.|last11=Hindmarsh-Walls|first11=R.|date=2018|page=41

|title=Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017|url=https://www.doc.govt.nz/globalassets/documents/science-and-technical/nztcs22entire.pdf|journal=New Zealand Threat Classification Series|volume=22|oclc=1041649797}}

{{Cite web|url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:483927-1|title=Carmichaelia appressa G.Simpson |publisher=Kew Science |website=Plants of the World Online|access-date=2019-11-29}}

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External links

  • [https://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?taxa=Carmichaelia+appressa#tab_mapView Carmichaelia appressa occurrence data] from Australasian Virtual Herbarium
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appressa

Category:Endemic flora of New Zealand

Category:Taxa named by George Simpson

Category:Plants described in 1945

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