Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Margins of dry woods, Hokianga River, & c." Type: K, A. Cunningham, 1826.

Glab. much-branched shrub up to c. 2 m. tall; branchlets slender, ascending, reddish brown. Lvs on stout petioles up to ± 15 mm. long. Lamina coriac., obovate-cuneate to broad-elliptic to narrow-obovate, sts sublanceolate; subentire to rather distantly crenately to serrate-dentately lobed or toothed; lobes sts apiculate; of 3 main dimensions: (a) 7-15-(20) × (3)-4-6-(8) cm.; (b) 6-12 × 1·3-2.5 cm.; (c) 4-7 × 2-3 cm. Infl. of 2-5-fld fascicles or fls solitary. Fls (3)-3·5-4 cm. long. Calyx ± 5 mm. long; lobes narrow- to broad-triangular, acute to acuminate. Corolla crimson; tube flaring, lobes 5-(4), deltoid, margins fimbriate. Berry 8-10(13) × 5-6-(7) mm., oblong in outline, crimson.

DIST.: N. Frequent in lowland to lower montane forests from near North Cape to about lat. 38º. S. Marlborough, J. Rutland; Collingwood, Dall.

FL. 8-12. FT. 11-4.

The few specimens I have seen from S. have fls hardly up to 3 cm. long, lamina up to 14 × 6 cm., sinuate, crenately toothed, teeth and apex us. apiculate. The sp. appears to be more polymorphic than has been recognized.