Epilobium tenuipes Hook.f.
E. confertifolium var. tenuipes Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 78.
E. nanum Col. in T.N.Z.I. 26, 1894, 315.
Type locality: "Barren places, head of Wairarapa Valley." Type: K, Colenso No. 110. The type of Colenso's nanum in W is a tiny scrap.
Stems simple or sparingly branched, slender, ascending to erect from prostrate base, up to ± 10 cm. long; branches bifariously pubescent. Lvs opp., crowded, alt. in floral region, stiff, erect to subpatent, sessile or nearly so. Lamina ± 5-10 × 1-3 mm., linear-oblong, lower obtuse, upper acute or apiculate, glab., subcoriac.; margins remotely denticulate or subentire. Fls solitary or few, ± 4 mm. diam.; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acuminate; petals white. Capsule slender 15-25 mm. long, glab. or slightly puberulous; peduncles very slender, up to 8 cm. long, finely pubescent. Seeds smooth or very minutely papillose.
DIST.: N., S. Occ. in lowland to montane or lower subalpine grassland or herbfield from lat. 39° southwards.
FL.- FT. 12-3.
