Flora of New Zealand Series

Loosely tufted herb up to 75 cm tall, with numerous leafy stolons. Stems mostly glabrous, but strigillose along lines decurrent from margins of petioles. Lamina of lf elliptic to ovate, 1.2-4 × 0.7-1.5 cm, subsessile. Floral tube 1-1.7 mm deep, strigillose and glandular. Petals white, often flushed pink later, 6-11 × 4.5-6 mm. Capsule moderately to densely strigillose and glandular, 4-6 cm long; fruiting pedicels 1.2-2.8 cm long.

N.; S.; St.; Ch.: scattered throughout.

Endemic.

Colonial in swamps, about lakes, and in bogs, mostly below 900 m.

FL Nov-Apr.