Carmichaelia astonii
{{Short description|Species of legume}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=January 2025}}
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|image = Carmichaelia astonii MRD Otari.jpg
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|status = NV
|status_system = NZTCS
|genus = Carmichaelia
|species = astonii
|authority = G.Simpson
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|range_map = Carmichaelia astoniiDistNZ.png
|range_map_caption = Occurrence data from AVH
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Carmichaelia astonii (common name Aston's dwarf broom){{Cite web|url=http://nzpcn.org.nz/flora_details.aspx?ID=408|title=Carmichaelia astonii {{!}} New Zealand Plant Conservation Network|website=nzpcn.org.nz|access-date=2019-11-25}} is a species of pea in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in South Island of New Zealand. Its conservation status (2018) is "Nationally vulnerable" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
Taxonomy and naming
The species was first described by George Simpson in 1945, who gave it the specific epithet, astonii, to honour Bernard Aston. A lectotype, [https://plants.jstor.org/stable/viewer/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.ak70629 AK 70629] collected by Simpson in February 1937 on the [https://www.marlboroughonline.co.nz/marlborough/information/geography/rivers/waima-river/ Ure River], in the Marlborough Region, is held in the Auckland Museum.{{cite web|url=https://plants.jstor.org/stable/viewer/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.ak70629|title=Isolectotype of Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson (family FABACEAE)|access-date=2019-11-25|publisher=JSTOR Global Plants}}
References
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|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=32
|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}}
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External links
- [https://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?taxa=Carmichaelia+astonii#tab_mapView Carmichaelia astonii occurrence data] from Australasian Virtual Herbarium
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Category:Taxa named by George Simpson
Category:Plants described in 1945
Category:Endangered flora of New Zealand
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