Carmichaelia hollowayi facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Carmichaelia hollowayi
Conservation status
Nationally Critical (NZ TCS)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Genus:	Carmichaelia
Species:	C. hollowayi
Binomial name
Carmichaelia hollowayi G.Simpson
Occurrence data from AVH

Carmichaelia hollowayi (common name Holloways broom) is a species of pea in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in the South Island of New Zealand. Its conservation status (2018) is "Nationally Critical" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.

Description

C. hollowayi is a low-growing shrub (50–60 cm high), first growing as an erect shrub but later its stems trail and spread across the ground.

Taxonomy

The species was first described by George Simpson in 1945. The earliest record in AVH, CHR 45804 was collected by Simpson in 1937 somewhere in Otago.

Habitat

It grows on limestone (which Simpson described as sandstone).