Flora of New Zealand Series

C. depressa Cheesem. in T.N.Z.I. 19, 1887, 250 non Col. ex Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 110.

Type locality: Waimarino Plain in forest. Type: W, D. Petrie, March 1921.

Prostrate to sprawling shrub up to c. 5 dm. tall; branches ± divaricate, branchlets slender; pubescent. Lvs very shortly petioled. Stipules broadly triangular, obtuse, pubescent to villous, ciliate especially at apex. Lamina coriac., olive-green, linear to narrow-oblong, acute, ± 8-11 × 1-2 mm., margins us. reddish brown. Midrib alone evident. Fls solitary, terminal on short branchlets. ♂ without calyx; corolla broadly campanulate; lobes 4-6, acute to subacute, ± = tube. ♀ with calyx-teeth evident, acute, corolla-tube short, lobes linear ± reflexed. Drupe orange-red, globose, 6-7 mm. diam.

DIST.: N., S., St. Montane to subalpine tussock-grassland, shrubland, bog forest, from Mount Hikurangi southwards. Rather local.

Oliver (loc. cit. 48) describes several habitat forms.