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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Cyathodes pumila Hook.f.

C. pumila Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1867, 735.

Type locality: Hurunui Mountains. Type: K, Travers, 1864.

Prostrate shrub forming dense patches up to c. 4 dm. diam; branches ∞, ascending at tips; branchlets ascending. Lvs close-set, imbricate. erect, coriac., subsessile, glab., paler below; 3-5 × 1-2 mm., narrow-oblong to narrow-elliptic, us. minutely apiculate; margins ± thickened towards base. Fls minute, solitary, axillary and/or terminal. bracts ∞, investing peduncle. Calyx-lobes broad-oblong, obtuse, ciliolate. Corolla-tube cylindric, much > calyx; lobes acute, densely hairy on upper surface. Style minutely 5-lobed. Fr. dark, c. 4-5 mm. diam., globose; locules us. 5.

DIST.: N., S. Montane to subalpine grassland, herbfield, open places from lat. 39º southwards.

FL. 11-1. FT. 1-4.

The type consists of 2 small pieces. Hooker had only flowering material and assigned it to Cyathodes with a query.

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