Prostrate or rambling shrub with slender branches up to c. 5 dm. long; branchlets with reddish brown bark. Lvs on petioles ± 1 mm. long. Lamina coriac., 4-10 × 4-10 mm., obovate-oblong to obovate to suborbicular, minutely apiculate or sts retuse; margins slightly recurved, at first ciliolate. Infl. of solitary fls or of few-fld fascicles. Fls minute; calyx-lobes 4, ovate; petals 4, free, obovate, ciliolate; ovary conical, stigma irregularly lobed. Fr. globose, 5-6·5 mm. diam., bluish purple.

DIST.: N., S., St. Montane to subalpine damp grassland and herbfield, descending to near sealevel in southernmost part of its range.

Type locality: Top of Ruahine Range, Colenso. Type: not located by me.