Callerya australis

(Austrocallerya australis)

Native Wisteria

The flowers are arranged in panicles 60–260 mm long, each flower on a pedicel 3–12 mm long with narrowly triangular, thread-like or egg-shaped bracts at the base, but that fall as the flowers open
The sepals are yellowish, 3.5–7 mm long and 5–10 mm wide
The standard petal is more or less round, 12–15 mm long, 11–18 mm wide and mauve, purple or whitish, the wings 12–14 mm long and purple or maroon, and the keel is 12–14 mm long and purple or maroon
Flowering occurs in winter and spring and the fruit is an oblong, woody glabrous pod 15–25 mm long

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The leaves are pinnate with 5 to 19 oblong, elliptic or egg-shaped leaflets, 10–86 mm long and 5–45 mm wide
There is a silky-hairy, thread-like or triangular stipel 1–4 mm long at the base of each leaflet, but that sometimes falls as the leaf matures
The petiole is 100–150 mm long with egg-shaped or narrowly triangular stipules at the base
The stalk of each leaflet is 2–3 mm long

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Distribution:

North Queensland, NSW as far south as Port Macquarie, and on Norfolk Island
It also occurs in New Guinea, New Caledonia, and the Cook, Solomon, Tuamotus and Tubuai Islands

Additional notes:

Taxonomy
- This species was first formally described in 1833 by Stephan Endlicher who gave it the name Pterocarpus australis in his book Prodromus Florae Norfolkicae from specimens collected on Norfolk Island by Ferdinand Bauer
- In 1994, Anne M. Schot moved the species to Callerya as Callerya australis in the journal Blumea
- In 2019, James A. Compton and Brian David Schrire moved it to the new genus as Austrocallerya australis, based on the plant's morphology, and nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences

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