Flora of New Zealand Series

Pozoa trifoliolata var. tripartita Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 85.

Type locality: "Crags on Titiokura" (Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 88; not given by Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. loc. cit.). Type: K, Colenso 1695. The plant still persists in the type locality. Other records are mainly due to the work of A.P. Druce.

Stems us. above ground, filiform or nearly so, creeping, branching, rooting, at nodes. Lvs on filiform petioles up to ± 2 cm. long; stipules minute, fimbriate. Lamina glab. or with a few cilia, 3-partite to base; 1flts membr., obovate-cuneate, sessile or subsessile, 2.5-5-(10) mm. long, with rounded lobe at apex and lateral pair of blunt teeth, to retuse or entire; margins slightly thickened and recurved. Umbels simple, (3)-5-6-(10) -fld, on filiform, branched, ± ciliolate peduncles up to c. 2 cm. long. Involucral bracts narrow-linear to narrow-lanceolate, acuminate. F1s minute, on pedicels ± 1-(3) mm. long; petals ovate, acute. Fr. tetragonous, ± 3 × 2 mm.; mericarps distinctly 5-ribbed.

DIST.: N. Montane rocky places along the eastern ranges from c. lat. 38º 30' to 39º 30', apparently local. Pouakai Range.