Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Hills at back of Rendezvous Harbour". Type: K, J. D. Hooker, Nov. 1840.

Primary root short-lived. Stem stout, to 2 cm. diam., us. simple, clothed with old lf-bases and giving off many strong adventitious roots; stem-hairs cop., fine, to 2 cm. long. Lvs crowded, ± erect, 5-16 × 2-5 cm., elliptic-obovate to obovate-lanceolate, narrowed gradually to very broad flat petiole; tip obtuse to subacute, margins us. with few small teeth; glab. except for a few sparse hairs at margin; veins 5-7. Scape 8-20 cm. long, stout, with scattered long hairs on upper part. Spike to 15 cm. long in fr., fls lax below, densely packed towards tip. Bracts c. 2 mm. long, ovate, obtuse, mostly thickened but with no distinct keel, glab., enclosing conspicuous tufts of long hairs; sepals c. 2 mm. long, broadly ovate, obtuse, with narrow indistinct keel, glab. Corolla-tube short, lobes c. 1·5 mm. long, narrow; anthers barely 1 mm. long; ovules 2; capsule c. 3 mm. long, narrow, splitting about middle; seed us. 1, scarcely flattened, the second ovule us. aborting.

DIST.: A. Sopping wet though stony ground under the rocky summits.

FL. 10-12. FT. 12-2.