Flora of New Zealand Series

"Folia linearia 5"/1" integerrima supra scabra hirsuta subtus canotomentosa. Thyrsi terminales. Flores apetali. Rami hirsuti. Pet. brevissimi. Folia margine reflexa; in superiore pagina pili prominentae impositi. Thyrsi in apicibus ramulorum. Pedicelli hirsuti. Bracteae scariosae deciduae. Cal. extus-hirsutus. German pubescens. Stigma quadripartitum. Hab. in Australia."

No specimen seems to have been preserved but Loddiges' figure (Bot. Cab. 2, 1818, t. 120) published without description may have been from the same material.