Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Wairau mountains alt. 5000 ft.". Type: K, Sinclair, 1860.

Erect shrub or small tree up to 5 m. tall, with ascending to spreading branches; branchlets marked by scars of fallen lvs; young shoots and peduncles with sparse pale fulvous hairs. Lvs coriac., of juvenile plants up to 5 cm. × 5 mm., linear, coarsely bluntly toothed, sts pinnatifid; of semi-adults similar, but up to 1 cm. wide; of adults 4-5 × 1-1·5 cm., oblanceolate to narrow-obovate, entire or with a few teeth, gradually narrowed to very short stout petiole, crowded towards tips of branchlets. Umbels 4-8-fld, terminal; pedicels slender, up to 1·5 cm. long. Fls fragrant, sepals narrow-ovate, acute; petals twice length of sepals, dark red, obtuse. Capsules subglobose, subcompressed, 2-valved; valves woody, c. 1 cm diam.

DIST.: S. N.W. Nelson. Streamsides and forest margins in upper drainage areas of Cobb, Buller, Wairau, Clarence rivers. Also recorded from Maitland Creek, head of Lake Ohau J. H. C. Bond (Cheeseman Man. N.Z. Fl. 1925, 491).