Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Acheron and Clarence Rivers. Type: K, Travers, alt. 5500 ft.

Glab. subsucculent herb; stems and branches rather stout, creeping, rooting at nodes, forming small, us. rather dense, patches. Lvs approximate, subsessile. Lamina thick, ± 5-10 × 4-9 mm.; broad-ovate to suborbicular, cuneately narrowed or rounded to base; coarsely toothed in upper half. Fls fragrant, 10-20 mm. long, at first subsessile; peduncle elongating to 3-5-(15) mm. Calyx ± 5 mm. long, cut to c. 1/2 way; lobes narrow-triangular, attenuate; sinus wide. Corolla very pale yellow to white; tube cylindric, ± 10 mm. long, somewhat inflated towards base; lobes spreading, oblong to linear, often subapiculate, ± 5 mm. long. Berry globose, 6-9 mm. diam., purplish; seeds ∞, minute.

DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine throughout. Habitats various: grassland, herbfield, rocks and debris slopes, marginal to screes, open shrubland.

FL.- FT. 11-4.

A somewhat plastic sp., varying in size according to habitat. Specimens in W, collected by D. Petrie on Old Man Range, March 1894, "common at 4000'", have frs c. 3-4 mm. diam.; lvs not > 4 mm. diam. The exact habitat is not stated.