Flora of New Zealand Series

Tufted herb. Stems 6-30 cm tall, usually purplish, rarely green, wiry, with broad lines of eglandular appressed or erect hairs running down below the petioles, hairy all round above. Lamina of lf ovate to broadly ovate, 10-40 × 6-20 mm. Floral tube 1.8-2.5 mm deep, ± glandular-hairy. Petals white or pink, 10-18 × 6-15 mm. Capsule usually with sparse glandular or erect eglandular hairs, rarely glabrous, 1.9-5.5 cm long; fruiting pedicel 0.7-1.5 cm long.

S.: Mt Owen Range (Nelson), from Lake Grassmere to the Kaikoura Peninsula and ascending to Mt Fyffe and Mt Terako (Marlborough), from the area of the Waikari R. to near Motunau Beach (N. Canterbury).

Endemic.

Limestone or chalky mountains and hills, often near the coast, often in dry situations, from sea level to 1200 m.

FL Nov-Apr.

Raven and Raven placed var. pallidum Simpson et J. Thomson and E. chlorifolium Hausskn.   var. kaikourense Cockayne sens. strict., both accepted as distinct entities by Allan (1961), in synonomy under E. wilsonii.