Flora of New Zealand Series

U. lucifuga var. linearifolia Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1854, 225.

U. incisa var. linearifolia Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 1906, 636.

Herb with slender scrambling or climbing, us. sparingly branched stems up to 2 m. long; branchlets, petioles and lvs sparingly clad in stinging hairs, sts almost lacking armature. Lvs 3-8 cm. × 5-12 mm., on petioles up to 5 mm. long; lamina linear to linear-lanceolate, dentate-serrate, acuminate, cuneate to truncate at base; teeth 1-2 mm. long, sharp, sinus acute. Staminate spikes up to 1 cm. long; per. glab. or nearly so; pistillate often reduced to glomerules. Achenes 1-1·5 mm. long, brown.

DIST.: N., S. Lowland swamps, especially among Phormium, local from lat. 40° southwards; east of divide in S. Also collected near Waikaremoana by E. P. Turner.

FL. 11-2. FT. 12-3. Type locality and type not determined.