Flora of New Zealand Series

Lycopodium sanguisorba Spring Mon. Lycop. 2, 1848, 36.

Plant up to 5 cm. long, rarely more; lvs linear, acute, us. few, seldom more than 10, c. 2 cm. long. Peduncle c. 3-4 cm. long; strobilus c. 7 mm. long, oblong-ovoid, bracts up to 30, cuspidate, overtopping sporangia.

DIST.: N., from near North Cape to lat. 37º 30', Leptospermum shrubland and moorland. Also reported from near Picton and on Banks Peninsula in S.