Flora of New Zealand Series

D. rosmarinifolium var. politum Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl, 1906, 427.

Type locality: Mount Maungatua. Type: A, D. Petrie.

Prostrate shrub with close-set stout branches, sts forming very compact cushionlike masses: branchlets densely clad in persistent imbricate lvs, bark brown. Sheaths broad, not or very sparsely ciliolate, passing into concavo-convex, smooth, polished, appressed, rigid, slightly arcuate lamina (6)-8-10 mm. long; apex very obtuse. Fls solitary, terminal, almost hidden by lvs; bracts broad, obtuse. Sepals ovate, acute, ciliolate, a little > corolla-tube.

DIST.: S., St. Lowland to montane bog to subalpine shrubland of Otago, Fiordland and St. Id.