Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "shaded woods, Wangaroa". Type: BM? A. Cunningham, 1833. I found no Cunningham specimens at K.

Shrub up to 3-(6) m. tall, sts depressed or prostrate. Branches divaricate; branchlets ± pubescent, ± interlacing, becoming glab. Lvs opp. or in opp. fascicles on slender pubescent petioles 1-2 mm. long. Stipules subacute to obtuse, pubescent, sheath short, cilia absent or very few, denticle solitary. Lamina linear- to broad-oblong, obtuse to subacute, coriac., dark green above, paler below; (7)-10-14-(16) × 2-3-(5) mm. Reticulations of veins evident, at least below. ♂ 1-4 axillary clusters on very short arrested branchlets; calyx minutely toothed; corolla narrow-funnelform, lobes ovate-oblong, acute, < tube. ♀ solitary, terminal on short branchlets; calyx-teeth short, obtuse; corolla-tube short, lobes long, acute. Drupe pale blue, translucent, or flecked pale and darker blue, globose, c. 7 mm. long.

DIST.: N., S., St. Coastal to lowland rocky and gravelly places, shrubland, forest, swamps and bogs from Mangonui southwards.