Flora of New Zealand Series

Creeping glabrous herb. Stems reddish, 2-15 cm long, branching and rooting at nodes. Lamina of lf oblanceolate, (3)-8-16 × 2-5 mm. Floral tube 3-5 mm deep, glabrous. Petals white, 7-9 × 3.5-4.6 mm. Capsules glabrous, 1-2 cm long; fruiting pedicel 0.2-1 cm long.

S.: known only from the mountains of Nelson.

Endemic.

Bare, open, metamorphic rubble, usually on ridge tops, 1300-1700 m.

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