Carmichaelia australis

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Carmichaelia australis, photographed by Jon Sullivan — fig. b Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195869077

Carmichaelia australis, photographed by Irisa Hudson — fig. c Irisa Hudson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183223280

Carmichaelia australis, photographed by Christopher Stephens — fig. d Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 180448577

Carmichaelia australis, photographed by Jenny Saito — fig. e Jenny Saito, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176869661

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Native distribution of Carmichaelia australis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
New Zealand North	NZN	AUSTRALASIA
New Zealand South	NZS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 179 in flower of 270 examined

69%

31%

22%

33%

56%

63%

80%

93%

88%

Proportion of examined Carmichaelia australis in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	34	49	69%	55% to 80%
Feb	4	13	31%	13% to 58%
Mar	5	23	22%	10% to 42%
Apr	5	15	33%	15% to 58%
May	6	18	33%	16% to 56%
Jun	0	3	too few examined
Jul	5	9	56%	27% to 81%
Aug	1	3	too few examined
Sep	5	8	63%	31% to 86%
Oct	16	20	80%	58% to 92%
Nov	42	45	93%	82% to 98%
Dec	56	64	88%	77% to 94%

Peak flowering in Nov. Each bar is the share of Carmichaelia australis observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 179 of 270 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 29 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Carmichaelia acuminata Kirk
Carmichaelia aligera G.Simpson
Carmichaelia arenaria G.Simpson
Carmichaelia australis var. alata Kirk
Carmichaelia australis var. egmontiana Cockayne & Allan
Carmichaelia australis var. strictissima Kirk
Carmichaelia corymbosa Colenso
Carmichaelia cunninghamii Raoul
Carmichaelia egmontiana (Cockayne & Allan) G.Simpson
Carmichaelia flagelliformis Colenso
Carmichaelia flagelliformis var. acuminata (Kirk) Cheeseman
Carmichaelia flagelliformis var. corymbosa (Colenso) Kirk
Carmichaelia flagelliformis var. flagelliformis
Carmichaelia flagelliformis var. hookeri (Kirk) Cheeseman
Carmichaelia hookeri Kirk
Carmichaelia micrantha Colenso
Carmichaelia muelleriana Regel
Carmichaelia multicaulis Colenso
Carmichaelia ovata G.Simpson
Carmichaelia paludosa Cockayne
Carmichaelia petriei var. robusta (Kirk) Cheeseman
Carmichaelia rivulata G.Simpson
Carmichaelia robusta Kirk
Carmichaelia silvatica G.Simpson

and 5 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.