Flora of New Zealand Series

Type: W, with label: "Tillaea pusilla T. Kirk. Stud. Fl. N.Z. Auckland. Mr Cheeseman(?)".

Small matted herb up to 2 cm. tall, with delicate pale green stems and branches; internodes us. not > 5 mm. Lvs (1)-1·5-1·75-(2) mm., thin, linear to linear-lanceolate, obtuse to subacute. Fls ± 1·75 mm. diam.; peduncles short, slightly thickening towards apex; calyx with deep ovate-oblong acute lobes. Petals > calyx lobes, oblong to ovate-oblong. Scales 4, linear-cuneate to narrow-spathulate. Carpels turgid; style recurved. Seeds 2-4 per carpel.

DIST.: N. Muddy banks of N. Wairoa River, T. F. Cheeseman. Kawakawa, Bay of Islands, T. Kirk. Wairoa Falls, Hunua, T. Kirk et al. S. Recorded by G. Simpson from Lake Te Anau.

FL.- FT. 12.

Kirk, loc. cit., describes his var. brevia : "Peduncles usually shorter than the leaves, not thickened upwards. Carpels more obtuse. North Island: Wairoa Falls, Hunua, T. K. Near T. sinclairii, but even more delicate, the carpels less obtuse and the style oblique." Type: specimens in W labelled as var. brevia Wairoa Falls, Hunua. Dec. 1868, T. Kirk.