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Chamaecytisus proliferus subsp. palmensis

(Christ) G.Kunkel (1980)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Fabales Family: Fabaceae Genus: Chamaecytisus

broom, tagasaste

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Shrubs up to 4(–10) m tall.

Stems: Branches long, leafy, tomentose.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves compound. Alternate, deciduous. Leaflets narrowly elliptic; 15–40 mm long, 5–13 mm wide. Leaflet margins entire. Petiolate. Stipules absent or minute.

Flowers: Flowers in clusters, in axillary pseudoracemes, these in groups of 2–4, apex vegetatively continuing. Flowers papilionaceous; bracteoles present. Calyx ca. 10 mm long, brown pubescent, Calyx bilabiate, 5-lobed, the upper lip 2-toothed, the lower one 3-toothed. Corolla white or pale yellow, standard 15–20 mm long. Stamens 10, connate; anthers alternately longer (basifixed) and shorter (versatile). Ovary superior; ovules numerous.

Fruit: Pods linear–falcate; 4–7 cm young; long; 1.5–2 cm wide; brown pubescent. Seeds 3–8; oblong–ellipsoid; slightly laterally flattened; 10–12 mm long; ca. 8 mm wide.

Ploidy: 2n = 50; 52

Habitat: Primarily in pastures.

Elevation Range: 640–1,525 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

  • Yes

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

Maui Naturalized
Hawai'i Naturalized

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • Description digitized by Dylan Charter
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii
  • First collected in 1927 (Degener2280, BISH).

Bibliography

Name Published In: Vieraea 8: 354 (1978 publ. 1980)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:663 (M); Staples et al. 2002:10 (H)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
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