Flora of New Zealand Series

Tufted slender herb 5-25 cm tall, often much-branched, perennating from buds near base, with short, crisp, erect or appressed hairs mostly confined to lines decurrent from margins of petioles, especially on upper part of stem. Lamina of lf narrowly elliptic, 0.3-2 cm × 0.1-0.4 cm. Floral tube 0.6-1.3 mm deep, strigillose outside. Petals white or pinkish, often flushed with pink after pollination, 2.5-8.6 × 1.8-5.5 mm. Capsule strigillose, sometimes very sparsely so, with denser lines of hairs conspicuous along the edges of valves and sometimes with a green suture line, 1.8-2.8 cm long; fruiting pedicel 1.3-2-(2.7) cm long.

N.: C. Volcanic Plateau, Kaimanawa Mountains, N. Ruahine Range; S.: E. Nelson and E. of the Main Divide from the Black Birch Range (Marlborough) to the Old Man Range and vicinity of Lake Te Anau.

Endemic.

Open slopes in tussock grassland, 300-1550 m.

FL Dec-Feb.

Raven and Raven placed E. simulans Allan and E. krulleanum Hausskn. sens. strict., both accepted by Allan (1961) as distinct spp., in synonomy under E. hectorii.