Flora of New Zealand Series

Bushy shrub. Stems sprawling to erect, glabrous, terete, reddish brown; branches erect. Lvs glaucous with pale dots, not papillate, subterete to weakly 3-angled, linear, acute, curving upwards, tapered to shortly connate lf-base, 10-20-(30) × 3-5 mm, 3-5 mm thick; keel smooth and rounded throughout. Fls 1-7-(10) in terminal cymes, 50-60 mm diam. Calyx glabrous; sepals 8-15 mm long. Petals spreading, pinkish purple above, paler beneath without median stripe, 15-30 mm long. Stamens 2-6 mm long; filaments white, hairy at base; anthers pale yellow. Capsule c. 1 cm diam. Seeds not seen.

S.: Banks Peninsula (Diamond Harbour and Taylors Mistake); Ch.

South Africa 1988

Banks, roadsides, cliffs.

FL Sep-Feb.