Flora of New Zealand Series

Creeping herb forming mats up to 0.5 m diam. Stems with sparse, round-tipped, appressed, antrorse, eglandular hairs (occasionally also with non-appressed, antrorse hairs) in decurrent lines; hairs also on ovaries, capsules, pedicels, sepals and sometimes lvs. Lamina of lf usually suborbicular, rugose, sometimes oblong or ovate, sometimes with several forms on the same plant, 0.2-1.2 × 0.15-0.9 cm. Floral tube 0.4-1 mm deep, glabrate. Petals white, 2-4-(5) × 0.9-2.5-(3) mm. Capsule glabrate, 0.4-3 cm long; fruiting pedicel 0.3-9.3-(13.5) cm long.

N.; S.; St.; Ch.

Endemic.

Flushes and seepages, tarns, kettleholes and other seasonally inundated hollows, lakeshores and riverbeds, moist coastal bluffs and banks, throughout, sea level to 1770 m.

FL Dec-Feb.

Plants treated by Allan (1961) as E. nerteroides Cunn., and its var. minimum (Kirk) Cockayne, were treated by Raven and Raven as E. komarovianum.