Flora of New Zealand Series

Erect, sparsely to well-branched, tufted, perennial herb 15-70 cm tall, densely covered with erect glandular and eglandular hairs. Stems hairy all round. Lamina of lf narrowly obovate to broadly ovate, 7-43 × 4-24 mm. Floral tube 0.7-1 mm deep, glabrous or nearly so. Petals white, 3.5-7 × 2.9-4 mm. Capsule 2.9-5.3 cm long, densely clothed in glandular and eglandular hairs; fruiting pedicel 0.5-1.5 cm long.

N.; S.; St.; Ch.

Endemic.

Dry banks and rocky, often eroding slopes, scrub, grassland, not in deep shade, sea level to 1200 m, throughout.

FL Dec-Feb.

Allan (1961) accepted 3 vars; Raven and Raven treated var. astonii Allan as E. astonii (Allan) Raven et Engelhorn and did not accept var. strictum Allan as distinct.