Flora of New Zealand Series

D. robustum Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 1, 1844, 49.

Type locality: Bay of Islands? Type: P, D'Urville, 1827. At K is a packet of fragments from the type. Richard gives only: "Crescit in rupibus Novae Zeelandiae (D'Urville)".

Shrub or small tree up to 10 m. tall, stouter than D. urvilleanum. Branches erect or ascending, bark greyish; branchlets slender, bark greyish brown. Lvs crowded towards tips of branchlets. Sheath pale, 5-6-(10) × 2-3 mm., truncate, us distinctly auricled. Lamina canaliculate for ± halfway, semi-terete, ± 6-8-10 cm. × 1-1·5 mm.; margins serrulate, sparsely ciliolate; apex acute. Infl. of 6-8-fld racemes, ± 3 cm. long, terminal on short lateral branchlets, often clustered. Lower bracts lflike, persistent; sheaths c·5 × 2.5 mm., with acuminate lamina ± 10 mm. long. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly > corolla-tube, which is 5-6 mm. long. Corolla-lobes narrowly ovate-triangular, c. 2.5 mm. long, obtuse.

DIST.: N. Shrubland from c. lat. 38 º northwards.