Flora of New Zealand Series

Type: Australian. FL.--FT. 11-4.

Plant parasitic on herbs and shrubs, forming tangled masses. Stems yellowish green, up to 3 m. or more long; branches c. 3 mm. diam.; branchlets faintly pubescent at tips; scales few, minute, ovate, acute. Spikes simple or branched, up to 5 cm. long; fls sessile, ± 3 mm. diam.; per. glab., 3 outer segs minute. Fr, globose, ± 3 mm. diam., enclosed in succulent, enlarged, glabrate, ribbed per. tube.

DIST.: N. Lowland scrub and moor from North Cape to Ahipara and Mangonui.

C. pubescens R. Br. has been established of recent years on nursery stock and on herbs and shrubs at Waipoua and is probably adventive from Australia.