Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Rock platforms on the banks of the Aorere River near Bainham", and there plentiful. Type: BD 33032, G. Simpson and J. S. Thomson.

Much-branched spreading shrub c. 1 m. tall. Branchlets medium with sparse short hairy pubescence mostly confined to bifarious bands, length of internodes c. 3 × diam., older branches red-brown. Lvs spreading, deflexed, c. 3-5 cm. × 4-9 mm., narrow-lanceolate, rather thin but ± glaucous; lf-bud without sinus, lf-base broad; lamina tapering to subacute tip, glab., entire, margin smooth, cartilaginous, midrib evident. Infls lateral, simple, c. 6 cm. long, us. tapering; peduncle c. 1·5 cm. long, slender, hairy-pubescent. Bracts 1·5-2 mm. long, narrow, ciliolate, not opp., pedicels to 3-4 mm. long. Calyx-lobes to 2 mm. long, narrow, subacute, ciliolate. Corolla white, tube c. 3 mm. long, lobes shorter, rounded, incurved. Capsule c. 4 × 2 mm., erect, ± pointed, glab.

DIST.: S. N.W. Nelson. Rupestral.

FL. 12-2.

Relations with other N.W. Nelson glaucous spp. are not clear. The type specimens are distinctive in long narrow rather thin-textured lvs and long pedicels and it has been reported by both W. B. Brockie and N. Potts that such plants come almost entirely true from seed. Specimens from other places approach H. albicans and H. topiaria more closely. A seedling intermediate between H. recurva and H. rigidula has appeared where both spp. grow on the rockery at Otari Open Air Plant Museum.