Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "woods, Aorere valley, alt. 1400 ft." Type: K, Travers, 1861.

Shrub up to c. 5 m. tall; branches slender, ascending to spreading, bark dark brown; branchlets pale brown, glab. Lvs ± distant, becoming patent, coriac., glab., sts subwhorled, paler below, subsessile; 7-12 × 1·5-3 mm., narrow-lanceolate acute to subacute; midrib us. distinct; margins recurved, ciliolate. Racemes terminal, c. 10-25 mm. long 8-16-fld; axis and pedicels pubescent. Bracts oblong, caducous; fls c. 4-5 mm. long; calyx-lobes oblong, obtuse, ciliolate. Corolla reddish, patent. Capsule ± 2.5 mm. diam., locules 5-(3).

DIST.: S., St. Lowland to lower montane shrubland and forest, throughout, rather local.

FL. 12-2. FT. 2-4.