Flora of New Zealand Series

"Almost exactly as the type but spreading widely by stout, soft, white underground stems, which occasionally arch above the ground. Debris at Blue Lake, Garvie Mts., 1230 m. altitude". Type: BD 59406, Simpson and Thomson, Nov. 1938. The creeping stems are not well shown.

Poppelwell (T.N.Z.I. 47, 1915, 128) remarks that at Blue Lake a form of R. novae-zelandiae has 8-10 petals. Simpson and Thomson (loc. cit.) consider that "The 5 petaled flowers appear to be those of var. repens, and 8-10 petaled flowers those of the usual forms of the species on this range."