Flora of New Zealand Series

Loosely matted flaccid herb 3-40 cm tall, often much-branched, creeping and rooting near base. Stems strigillose all round at least in upper portions, also with glandular hairs in infl. Lamina of lf narrowly to very broadly ovate, 0.4-2.6 × 0.4-1.4 cm. Floral tube 0.9-1.2 mm deep, glandular and strigillose. Petals white, 3.3-6.2 × 1.6-3.5 mm. Capsule sparsely strigillose and with glandular hairs, 2.5-5.5 cm long; fruiting pedicel 0.5-6.5 cm long.

N.: Waikato and Bay of Plenty S.; S.: throughout; Ch.

Endemic.

Widespread in relatively open, marshy places, in bogs, and about lake margins, sea level to 900 m.

FL Nov-Mar.