Flora of New Zealand Series

Var. lineatum Kirk Stud. Fl. 1899, 158.

L. lineatum Ckn. Rep. Dune Areas N.Z. 1911, 38.

Kirk's original description is: "Young shoots, leaves, and calyces silky; branchlets densely crowded; leaves linear and pungent, 1/40 in. wide, margins slightly recurved; calyx with more acute teeth; petals very small, crumpled. Calyx-teeth erect in fruit. This is probably a distinct species." Kirk later (Stud. Fl. 1899, 158) used the epithet lineatum for the same var. and gives: "Very slender, 2 ft.-6 ft. high, rarely prostrate. Leaves very narrow linear, 1/30 in.-1/20 in. broad, acute; margins faintly recurved, glabrate or silky; midrib and dotted glands sunk. Flowers smaller than in the type, and petals more crumpled.- T. Kirk, Forest Fl. N.Z. t. 69, f. 2. NORTH Island: Mangonui to the Waitemata."

A very distinct var. resembling in lf-size and shape linifolium forms of L. scoparium, with lvs densely crowded, up to c. 15 × 1 mm., and capsules c. 3 mm. diam., rather densely clad in appressed hairs.