Carmichaelia astonii

Carmichaelia astonii (common name Aston's dwarf broom)^[4] is a species of pea in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in South Island of New Zealand.^[2] Its conservation status (2018) is "Nationally vulnerable" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.^[1]

Carmichaelia astonii
Conservation status
Nationally Vulnerable (NZ TCS)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Genus:	Carmichaelia
Species:	C. astonii
Binomial name
Carmichaelia astonii G.Simpson[2][3]
Occurrence data from AVH

Taxonomy and naming

The species was first described by George Simpson in 1945, who gave it the specific epithet, astonii, to honour Bernard Aston.^[3] A lectotype, AK 70629 collected by Simpson in February 1937 on the Ure River, in the Marlborough Region, is held in the Auckland Museum.^[5]