Flora of New Zealand Series

C. propinqua var. linariifolia Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 109.

Type locality: Ruahine Range. Type: K, Colenso 980.

Tree up to ± 6 m. tall, with a definite trunk, sts reduced to a shrub; wood yellow; branchlets slender, ± drooping, puberulous, subtetragonous. Lvs on slender petioles 1-2 mm. long. Stipules connate into tubular sheath c. 4-5 mm. long, ciliate, with 2 acute to acuminate denticles. Lamina coriac., dark green above, paler below, obliquely linear to linear-lanceolate, acute, ciliate, sts slightly curved to arcuate, (15)-20-30-(40) × 2-4-(5) mm. Margins us. purplish with minute crenulations. Midrib (impressed above) and us. some secondary veins visible below. ♂ in clusters of 2-5 terminal on lateral branchlets, clusters invested by 2-3 broad stipular sheaths; calyx 0; corolla campanulate, lobes broad-triangular, acute, ± = tube. ♀ solitary, terminal on lateral branchlets, invested by stipular sheath; calyx-lobes c. 2 mm. long, narrow; corolla-lobes linear, subacute to obtuse, ± = tube. Drupe translucent, white, oblong, c. 6 mm. long.

DIST.: N., S. Lowland to montane forest and shrusbland from Thames Valley southwards.