Flora of New Zealand Series

Leucopogon fraseri A. Cunn. in Ann. nat. Hist. 2, 1839, 47.

L. nesophilus DC. Prodr. 7, 1833, 752.

L. bellignianus Raoul in Ann. Sci. nat. Sér. 3, 2, 1844, 118.

Styphelia fraseri F. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. Austr. 6, 1867, 56.

Type locality: "Among ferns on the hills near the Bay of Islands". Type: There are three small pieces at K collected by R. Cunningham in 1834. A. Cunningham collected specimens in 1820.

Prostrate to low-growing shrub up to c. 15 cm. tall or more, forming extensive dense patches; branches decumbent to ascending; branchlets close-set, minutely puberulous when young, densely clad in erect imbricate lvs. Lamina sessile or subsessile, coriac., glab., us. brownish green above, paler below, finely nerved, ± 4-9 × 1-2 mm., obovate-oblong; margins scarious to cartilaginous, finely ciliolate; abruptly narrowed to pungent tip ± 2 mm. long. Infl. of axillary solitary sessile fls; bracts minute, apiculate. Fls small; calyx-lobes acute. Corolla-tube cylindric. > twice length calyx; lobes short, acute, densely hairy on upper surfaces. Fr. orange to yellow, broad-oblong in outline, 8-9 mm. long.

DIST.: N., S. St. Coastal dunes, lowland to subalpine open grassland, rocky places, fellfield.

FL. 9-1-(3). FT. 11-3.