Flora of New Zealand Series

Creeping herb, rooting at nodes and forming loose mats up to 0.5 m diam. Stems strigillose or with short erect hairs on lines decurrent from margins of petioles. Lamina of lf very broadly ovate to orbicular, 2.5-14 × 2.5-15 mm. Floral tube 0.7-0.9 mm deep. Petals white, occasionally pink, 3-5 × 1.9-2.6 mm. Capsule glabrous, 2-5 cm long; fruiting pedicel 4.5-10 cm long.

N.: scattered from the Raukumara Range, C. Volcanic Plateau, and Mt Egmont S., also near Waimate North and Hunua Falls; S.: Marlborough Sounds, Nelson, Westland, Fiordland, Cass and Banks Peninsula, Dunedin, coastal Southland; St.; Ch., Ant., A., C., M.

Endemic.

Moist shaded banks, often in Nothofagus forest, or in moist tussock on the subantarctic islands, sea level to 1200 m.

FL Nov-Feb.

Plants of E. pedunculare sens. strict. were long known as E. linnaeoides Hook. f. in N.Z. Raven and Raven treated plants described as E. pedunculare by Allan (1961) as follows: var. viride Cockayne as E. nerteroides Cunn., var. pedunculare and var. brunnescens Cockayne as E. brunnescens (Cockayne) Raven et Engelhorn   subsp. brunnescens, and var. minutiflorum Cockayne as E. brunnescens subsp. minutiflorum (Cockayne) Raven et Engelhorn.