Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Wet rocks at Palliser Bay". Type: K, Colenso.

Plant with very slender stolons bearing ∞ short-stalked bladders ± 3-4 mm. diam. Lvs few, deciduous, radical, (5)-10-20-30 mm. long, narrow, linear to lanceolate or spathulate, slightly fleshy. Scape very slender, erect, ± 7-25 cm. long, (1)-3-4-fld; bracts small, opp., or in whorls of 3, broad-ovate. Fls subsessile; upper calyx-lobe suborbicular, rounded at apex, or very slightly retuse; lower smaller, 2- to obscurely 3-toothed. Corolla pale purple with yellow eye, rarely whitish; upper lip truncate to very slightly retuse, oblong-cuneate; lower about semicircular, broad, entire; palate with 3 broad grooved ridges; spur short, thick, obtuse. Capsule globose-obovoid, 4-5 mm. diam.

DIST.: N., S. Lowland to lower montane boggy ground from lat. 35° to 44°, east of divide in S.

FL. 11-2.