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Carmichaelia (New Zealand brooms) is a genus of 24 plant species belonging to Fabaceae, the legume family. All but one species are native to New Zealand; the exception, Carmichaelia exsul, is native to Lord Howe Island and presumably dispersed there from New Zealand.

Species

Genus

  1. PhylumOchrophyta
  2. ClassPhaeophyceae
  3. OrderEctocarpales
  4. FamilyChordariaceae
Habitatmarine

General: into Carmichaelia; in a morphological cladistic analysis the three genera

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
59
With media
35
Family
Fabaceae
Collections
MEL, USF, NO, F, BPBM, MNHN
Recorded in
New Zealand, United States, Australia, Nouvelle ZéLande

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Image
North Island Broom.jpg
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taxon rank
genus
taxon name
Carmichaelia
Commons category
Carmichaelia
topic's main category
Category:Carmichaelia
taxon common name
Tawao
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Encyclopedic overview

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Carmichaelia (New Zealand brooms) is a genus of 24 plant species belonging to Fabaceae, the legume family. All but one species are native to New Zealand; the exception, Carmichaelia exsul, is native to Lord Howe Island and presumably dispersed there from New Zealand.

The formerly recognised genera Chordospartium, Corallospartium, Notospartium and Huttonella are now all included in Carmichaelia. The genera Carmichaelia, Clianthus (kakabeak), Montigena (scree pea) and Swainsona comprise the clade Carmichaelinae. Carmichaelia is named after Captain Dugald Carmichael, a Scottish army officer and botanist who studied New Zealand plants.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carmichaelia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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