Flora of New Zealand Series

D. uniflorum Bergg. in Minneskr. fisiogr. Sällsk. Lund 15, 1877, t. 4 non Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 182.

Type locality: Mount Torlesse. Type: Oslo, S. Berggren, 1877.

Prostrate to sprawling; branches stout, up to c. 5 dm. long, bark reddish brown to greyish; branchlets densely lfy, ascending at tips, bark reddish brown. Lvs crowded, erecto-patent, coriac.; sheaths ± 5-10 × 4-8 mm., rather abruptly narrowed into glab., glaucous lamina ± 20-35-(50) × (3)-4-5 mm., gradually narrowing to acuminate pungent tip; margins very minutely serrulate. Fls 6-9 mm. long, on lateral branchlets, shortly peduncled; bracts few, > fls. Sepals ovate, acuminate, persistent, ciliolate, < corolla-tube, which is ± 5 mm. long with ovate-triangular, acute lobes; anthers included. Capsule c. 3 mm. long, broadly obovoid.

DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine rocky places, open grassland, fellfield from c. lat. 41º 30' to c. 44º.

Oliver (T.N.Z.I. 59, 1929, 692) notes. "Specimens from southern localities (Copland River, Black Birch Creek, Hooker Valley) have leaves narrower, 1·5-2.5 mm. broad, than those from more northern districts, 4-4·5 mm. broad".