Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Swampy ground near Tahoraiti, County of Waipawa." Type: W, April 1885, H. Hill.

Stolons, often below surface, branched, up to ± 3 dm. long. Lvs on slender, ± reddish petioles up to 8 cm. long. Lamina broad-oblong to broad-elliptic, 20-25 × 14-17 mm., occ. more; glab. or nearly so, membr., dull brownish green, ± sinuate, crenulate; apex rounded, base truncate to subcordate. Scapes unisexual, ± 10 cm. long. ♂ subsessible, rather distant, drooping, on very slender axis withering after anthesis. ♀ in "cluster" stage at anthesis, up to ± 7 mm. long, lobes 4, inner oblong, outer obovate; axis rather stout, ± fleshy, pale yellow to white; drupe 3-4 mm. long, obconic to pyriform, patent to drooping, shortly pedicelled, yellow, rather close-set.

Dist.: N., S., St. Similar distribution and habitats to those of G. prorepens.

FL. 10-2. FT. 12-4.

The type has slender petioles; lamina 25-26 × 15-17 mm., oblong to broadly ovate-oblong. Kirk (T.N.Z.I. 27, 1895, 345) gives the fr. colour as "crimson or lemon". For arguments concerning the status of G. ovata Petrie see T.N.Z.I. 27, 1895, 346 and 29, 1897, 422.