Sophora prostrata
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Synonyms
- Sophora tetraptera var. prostrata (Buchanan) Kirk
- Edwardsia prostrata (Buchanan) W.R.B.Oliv
A low intricately branched shrub, flat-topped and very dense in exposed places, sometimes prostrate. Leaves about 1 in. long, with up to eight pairs of leaflets, each leaflet about 1⁄6 in. long, oblong. Flowers to about three in a raceme, orange or brownish yellow. Pods less than 2 in. long, with up to five seeds. Native of South Island, New Zealand, in grassland and open rocky places, east of the Divide. S. microphylla sometimes bears flowers even in the juvenile state, and this species seems to be a modification that is fertile and permanently juvenile in habit.
Native of South Island, New Zealand, in grassland and open rocky places, east of the Divide. S. microphylla sometimes bears flowers even in the juvenile state, and this species seems to be a modification that is fertile and permanently juvenile in habit.