Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Mt. Garfield, West Amuri, 4500 ft. alt. Type: BD 76133 ex Herb. W. B. Brockie, W.B.B., 12 Dec. 1936.

Distichous lvs ± evenly distributed along creeping stem; lamina c. 15 × 10 mm., multicellular hairs ∞ and non-glandular on upper surface, undersurface us. glab., sts a few long hairs, occ. gland-tipped, on strongly marked veins. Cauline lvs often 0. Bracts 1-2 pairs. Hairs on peduncle and pedicels multicellular and gland-tipped. Calyx c. 6 mm. long, with clefts, lobes and hairs as in var. sessilifolia. Corolla c. 1·5 cm. diam.

DIST.: S. From N.W. Nelson to St. Arnaud and Spenser Mts and as far south as Amuri Pass. Moist banks and rocks in mountains.

FL. 12-2. FT. 1-3.

This var. is named for G. Simpson of Dunedin who, at the time of his death, was nearing the end of a detailed study of Ourisia, and had made many useful herbarium annotations. The Travers specimens from "Lake Guyon range, Waiau, 3500 ft., on rocky ground" recorded by Hooker as O. glandulosa  (Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1867, 739) belong here, as do many Nelson specimens diversely labelled in herbaria.