Flora of New Zealand Series

Pozoa reniformis Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 1, 1844, t. 11.

Azorella reniformis Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. 1, 1867, 875.

Type locality: A. "in clefts of rock at the top of a hill above Rendezvous Harbour". Type: K, Dec. 1840, J.D.H.

Glab. herb with slender rhizomes emitting short stolons. Lvs clustered, on rather stout petioles (2)-4-5-(6) cm. long. Lamina (5)-10-15--(20) mm. diam., reniform to suborbicular, subcoriac., bright green. crenate; margins hardly thickened; base with us. open ± cordate sinus. Stipules entre, acuminate to acute. Umbels 3-8-fld on rather stout peduncles up to c. 3 cm. long; involucral bracts linear, obtuse. Fls subsessile; calyx-teeth acute; petals c. 1 mm. long. Fr. tetragonous, pale, c. 2-3 mm. long. Mericarps 5-ribbed, sts obscurely so.

DIST.; A., C. Rocky places.

Sorensen (D.S.I.R. Cape Exped. Ser. Bull. 7, 1951, 31) says: "Reported as having been collected from the Tucker Cove valley, but this needs verification."