Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Cape Palliser. Type: K, Cape Palliser, Colenso. Reported from Otago, but the forms there not sufficiently studied.

Low-growing spreading to erect dioec. shrub, sts as much as 2 m. tall; branchlets divaricating, ± pubescent, stout to slender, sts spinous at tips. Lvs coriac., solitary or fascicled, on petioles 2-4 mm. long; lamina (5 mm.)-1-2 cm. × (3)-4-7 mm.; narrowly obovate-oblong to spathulate, obtuse to retuse, cuneately narrowed to base; margins ± revolute, entire or occ. obtusely toothed or lobed. Fls ± 3 mm. diam., solitary or 2-3 together; bracts us. near middle of straight or recurved pedicel. Sepals suborbicular, margins fimbriate; petals narrow-oblong, revolute at apex, lemon-yellow, ± 3 mm. long. Anther membrane with 5 narrow triangular processes, scale broad; style 2-fid. Berry 3-5 mm. diam., broadly cylindric to subglobose; seeds (1)-2.

DIST.: N., S. Coastal rocky places, Kapiti Id, shores of Cook Strait and Marlborough Sounds, and extending to Banks Peninsula.

FL. 9-12. FT. 10-1.