Carmichaelia

Carmichaelia
	Carmichaelia flagelliformis
Systematics
	Eurosiden I
Order :	Fabales (Fabales)
Family :	Legumes (Fabaceae)
Subfamily :	Butterflies (Faboideae)
Tribe :	Galegeae
Genre :	Carmichaelia
Scientific name
	Carmichaelia
	R.Br.

Carmichaelia is a genus of plants in the subfamily of the butterflies (Faboideae). This genus consists of shrubs that are reminiscent of the European gorse in growth. However, it occurs only in New Zealand , with the exception of one species, and its flowers are mostly reddish. The genus was named after the Scot Dugald Carmichael .

description

These are shrubs , small trees or half-shrubs , rarely, to woody vines. Depending on the species, they reach heights of between a few centimeters and a few meters.

Carmichaelia australis , illustration from Engelmann (ed.): Natural plant families

The leaves are reduced in most species and only formed as small scales. Instead of the leaves, the stems take over photosynthesis . These are rush-like round or leaf-like flattened as phyllocladia .

The flowers are in simple or branched racemose inflorescences , with some species also individually. The zygomorphic flowers are five-fold. The five sepals are fused bell-shaped. The crown is whitish to pink, purple or purple, only rarely yellow. The pen stops on the sleeve after flowering as a beak.

Occurrence

The species of the genus are native to New Zealand only . A single one ( Carmichaelia exsul ) comes from Lord Howe Island , which belongs to Australia . Many species only occur very regionally.

Quite different locations are settled. Most species, however, occur mainly on poor, often stony soils with little vegetation.

Systematics

Both the demarcation between the individual species and the demarcation to closely related genera is very difficult and was handled very differently. Repeated revisions of the genus by Peter Brian Heenan showed that the previously used genres Chordospartium , Corallospartium , Notospartium and Huttonella in the genre Carmichaelia must be incorporated so that it is within the tribe except Carmichaelia depending considers only the genus Streblorrhiza or class Montigena gives.

Carmichaelia aligera

Carmichaelia arborea

Carmichaelia arborea , pod with seeds

Carmichaelia australis

Depending on the opinion, about 20 to 30 types are distinguished. However, there are a considerable number of synonyms , which is why lists of species often bear little resemblance to one another. The following list of species is based on the "Flora of New Zealand":

Carmichaelia aligera G.Simpson : Also called Carmichaelia australis R.Br. by other authors. posed
Carmichaelia angustata Kirk
Carmichaelia appressa G.Simpson
Carmichaelia arborea (G. Forst.) Druce
Carmichaelia arenaria G.Simpson : Also called Carmichaelia australis R.Br. by other authors posed
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson
Carmichaelia compacta Petrie
Carmichaelia corrugata Colenso
Carmichaelia cunninghamii Raoul
Carmichaelia Curta Petrie
Carmichaelia egmontiana (Cockayne & Allan) G. Simpson
Carmichaelia enysii Kirk
Carmichaelia fieldii Cockayne
Carmichaelia flagelliformis Benth. : Also called Carmichaelia australis R.Br. by other authors posed
Carmichaelia floribunda G. Simpson
Carmichaelia glabrata G. Simpson
Carmichaelia grandiflora (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Carmichaelia hollowayi G.Simpson
Carmichaelia hookeri Kirk
Carmichaelia kirkii Hook.f.
Carmichaelia lacustris G. Simpson
Carmichaelia monroi Hook.f.
Carmichaelia nigrans G. Simpson
Carmichaelia odorata Benth.
Carmichaelia orbiculata Colenso
Carmichaelia ovata G.Simpson : Also called Carmichaelia australis R.Br. by other authors posed
Carmichaelia petriei Kirk
Carmichaelia prona Kirk
Carmichaelia ramosa G. Simpson
Carmichaelia rivulata G. Simpson
Carmichaelia robusta Kirk : Also called Carmichaelia australis R.Br. by other authors. posed
Carmichaelia silvatica G. Simpson
Carmichaelia solandri G. Simpson
Carmichaelia suteri Colenso
Carmichaelia uniflora Kirk
Carmichaelia violacea Kirk : Also called Carmichaelia australis R.Br. by other authors posed
Carmichaelia virgata Kirk
Carmichaelia williamsii Kirk

Additional to that:

Carmichaelia exsul F. Muell. She is endemic of to New South Wales belonging to Lord Howe Island .

Sources and further information

literature

Urania plant kingdom . Volume 3: Flowering Plants 1, 1st edition. Urania-Verlag, Leipzig 1991, ISBN 3-332-00367-4 .
PB Heenan: A taxonomic revision of Carmichaelia (Fabaceae - Galegeae) in New Zealand (part I). New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1995, Vol. 33: 455-475.
PB Heenan: A taxonomic revision of Carmichaelia (Fabaceae - Galegeae) in New Zealand (part II). New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1996, Vol. 34: 157-177.

supporting documents

↑ 8. CARMICHAELIA R. Br., 1825 Flora of New Zealand, accessed July 9, 2018.
^ Carmichaelia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved March 8, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Carmichaelia - collection of images, videos and audio files

[1] 8. CARMICHAELIA R. Br., 1825 Flora of New Zealand, accessed July 9, 2018.

[GRIN-2] Carmichaelia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved March 8, 2017.