Carmichaelia odorata Colenso ex Hook.f.
Description:
First published in Flora Novae-Zelandiae in 1852, this shrub is native to central New Zealand. Its type locality was recorded as the “East Coast”, probably near Clive, with type specimens collected by William Colenso in 1849. It forms a bushy shrub up to 2m tall, with spreading branches and drooping, flattened branchlets, bearing small white, purple-veined flowers in racemes. It occurs along lowland to montane streamsides and forest margins.
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