Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Wairau Mountains". Type: K, W. T. L. Travers, alt. 4000 ft.

Stout erect shrub to 1 m. tall; branches with dark reddish brown bark; branchlets slender, ascending, rather close-set; lvs imbricate, us. 8. Sheath c. 2.5-3·5 mm. broad, passing by subtruncate to rounded shoulder into erect, rigid, coriac., semiterete lamina ± pubescent on upper surface, 12-15-(18) × 1·3-2 mm., tapering to pungent apex; margins minutely ciliolate. Fls solitary, terminal on lateral branchlets; bracts narrow. Sepals lanceolate, acute, c. = corolla-tube. Corolla subcampanulate, tube c. 5 mm. long; lobes broad-ovate, obtuse, white, c. 2 mm. long; anthers included.

DIST.: N., S. Montane to subalpine shrubland, grassland, herbfield, fellfield from c. lat. 39° southwards.