Flora of New Zealand Series

N. poeticus × tazetta

Scape 30-60 cm high, ± compressed. Leaves ± glaucous, broadly channelled. Flowers (1)-2-(3) per scape, fragrant; pedicels long; tube narrow-cylindric, green; lobes cream or yellowish-white, = tube; corona c. ¼ length of lobes, shallowly cup-shaped, yellow with whitish, scarious, crenate margin.

N., S. Scattered. Persistent garden outcast in grass.

(Probably native in S. France)

First record: Cockayne 1907: 22, as N. biflorus Curtis [N. × biflorus Curtis].

First collection: "Upper Hutt, Hutt Valley, in grass, roadside, A.J. Healy 53/950, 12.10.1953, persistent garden outcast" ().

FL. 10.