Flora of New Zealand Series

Scape 40-50 cm high, compressed, 2-edged. Leaves ± glaucous, ± flat. Flower solitary, horizontal or ascending, fragrant; pedicel short; tube narrow-cylindric, greenish; lobes ± = tube, white, spreading to recurved; corona much < lobes, flat and discoid to cup-shaped, yellow, with the margin strongly crimped and red-edged.

N., S. Scattered. Persistent garden outcast on grassy roadsides.

(S.W. Europe)

First record: Healy 1958: 542, as N. poeticus agg.

First collection: Wallaceville, Hutt Valley, forming patches on roadside, in grass, A. J. Healy 53/882, 17.9.1953 ().

FL. 9-10.

N. poeticus var. majalis (Curtis) A. Fernandes, with larger flowers and a white zone on the corona below the red margin has been recorded (as N. majalis Curt.) as a garden outcast by Healy (T.R.S.N.Z. 85, 1958, 542) - "Wallaceville, Hutt Valley, A.J. Healy 53/881, 17.9.1953, forming patches on roadside, in grass; garden outcast established and slowly spreading" (CHR 84321).