Flora of New Zealand Series

Original localities: "Mountain valleys of Central Otago, from 1,500 ft. to 3,000 ft.; Lowburn Creek; Obelisk Creek; Mount St. Bathan's."

Slender laxly branched herb up to ± 25 cm. tall; stems slender, decumbent at base; branchlets ascending or spreading, finely and densely pubescent. Lvs opp., sessile or nearly so, rather distant, floral lvs alt. Lamina narrow-ovate to ovate- or elliptic-oblong (10)-15-20 × (4)-5-7 mm., rather abruptly narrowed to base, pale to bright green, us. distinctly mottled grey, ± reddish below, membr., glab.; margins rather coarsely and sharply toothed. Fls ± 5 mm. diam.; calyx almost as long as petals, lobes ovate-lanceolate; petals pinkish or white, 3-4 mm. long. Capsules slender, densely pubescent to almost hoary, 20-40 mm. long; peduncles ± 3-4 mm. long. Seeds smooth.

DIST.: S., St. Lowland to montane grassland and open places from lat. 41° 30' southwards.

FL.- FT. 12-2.

Kirk (Stud. Fl. 1899, 177) unites this with E. haloragifolium A. Cunn.