Flora of New Zealand Series

B. hookeri (Hook.) Cheesem. var. angustifolia Ckn. et Laing in T.N.Z.I.  43,  1911,  366.

Original localities: "Common in the east of Canterbury and Otago". Type: Not found.

Plant to 100 cm. tall but us. much less. Lvs rarely > 1.5 cm. wide, narrowing to subacute tip, mostly erect. Peduncle long, infructescence us. overtopping lvs. Raceme to 20 × 2.5 cm., many-fld; bracts broad, rather abruptly acuminate, at no stage completely hiding fl.-buds; pedicels short, us. c. 1.5 cm., not swollen below fl., suberect. Fls bisexual; per. to c. 10 mm. diam., shrivelled and pendent from base of ripening capsule. Ovary and capsule sessile. Capsule 5–7 × 4 mm., long-oval. Seeds c. 4–4.5 mm. long, dark brown, narrowly winged. 2n = 14.

DIST.: S., east of the main divide, from about Hurunui River southwards

, us. in damp places, often locally abundant, in tussock grassland.

FL. 11–12. FT. 12–2.