Flora of New Zealand Series

Crantzia lineata Hook. f. loc. cit. non Nutt. loc. cit.

C. novae-zelandiae Gand. in Bull. Soc. bot. Fr. 65, 1918, 31.

Type locality: Tomahawk Lagoon, Dunedin. Type: G. M. Thomson in Herb. Gandoger.

Rhizome creeping, rooting at nodes and there emitting solitary "phyllodes" or few together; internodes us. short. "Phyllodes" up to ± 12 cm. long, us. shorter, linear to spathulate. Umbels 3-4-fld, on peduncles up to ± 2 cm. long. Involucral bracts up to c. 3 mm. long; pedicels ± 6 mm. long. Fr. ovoid, ± 1·25 × 1·5-2 mm. Ribs subacute, distinct; lateral somewhat woody; vittae 8, 4 commissural. Stylopodia prominent.

DIST.: S. Similar stations to those of L. lacustris, lowland to lower montane throughout, apparently rather local.

Hill (loc. cit. 550) remarks: "Gandoger's specimen is only a small scrap with imperfect inflorescences bearing remains of three flowers, and it is on this character alone that he made the Thomson plant a new species. From the more ample material at Kew and at the British Museum, four-flowered umbels are found to be typical. The fruits, however, afford the only useful characters for specific determination."