Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Skirts of woods on the shores of the Bay of Island". Type: K, R. Cunningham, 1834.

Bushy slender shrub up to c. 1 m. tall; branchlets slender, spreading, red-brown, pubescent. Lvs on petioles up to 10 mm. long, slender, flattened, pubescent. Lamina submembr., us. ± red-flushed or -flecked, broad-ovate to broad-elliptic to obovate in outline, us. cuneately narrowed to base, of 2 main dimensions on different plants((a) 10-20 × 7-10-(14) mm.; (b) 5-10 × 5-7 mm. Margins coarsely toothed to deeply lobed, especially in upper part; often subentire in smaller lvd group. Infl. of solitary fls or 2-3 together. Fls (5)-8-12-(14) mm. long (plant may flower when only 30 cm. tall). Calyx ± pubescent; lobes 4, bluntly triangular, ± pubescent, Corolla ± 12 mm. long; tube very slightly flaring, greenish yellow, ± red-tinged as are the 4 broad-triangular fimbriate lobes. Berry puberulous when young, 5-9 × 4-7 mm., subglobose to subturbinate, red.

DIST.: N. Lowland forests from lat. 35º to 37º.

FL. 6-11 FT. 2-3.

A rather polymorphic sp., the type well figured in t. 24 of the Fl. N.Z.