Euphrasia revoluta Hook.f.
Low tufted perennial herb, sometimes with fairly stout woody stock; stems slender and stoloniferous; branches numerous, erect, to c. 5 cm long, slender to filiform, white-hairy. Lvs sessile, 2-10 × 1-5 mm, rhomboid-cuneate or narrower, with 1 pair of small acute teeth below large triangular or rounded terminal lobe, glabrous. Fls subsessile or on pedicels to c. 5 mm long. Calyx 5-8 mm long, white-hairy, evenly or subevenly divided c. ⅓ way. Corolla white, 10-15 mm long. Anthers red-brown; margins hairy; awns unequal, stout. Capsule ± = calyx, c. 6-7 × 3-4 mm.
N.: Ruahine and Tararua Ranges; S.: Nelson to Fiordland.
Endemic.
Plentiful in subalpine boggy and open places, tussock grassland and herbfield.
FL Dec-Mar.
