Flora of New Zealand Series

Suttonia nummularia Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1854, 173, t. 43.

Rapanea nummularia (Hook. f.) W. R. B. Oliver loc. cit. 4, 1951, 112.

Type locality: Top of Ruahine Range, Colenso. Type: not located by me.

Prostrate or rambling shrub with slender branches up to c. 5 dm. long; branchlets with reddish brown bark. Lvs on petioles ± 1 mm. long. Lamina coriac., 4-10 × 4-10 mm., obovate-oblong to obovate to suborbicular, minutely apiculate or sts retuse; margins slightly recurved, at first ciliolate. Infl. of solitary fls or of few-fld fascicles. Fls minute; calyx-lobes 4, ovate; petals 4, free, obovate, ciliolate; ovary conical, stigma irregularly lobed. Fr. globose, 5-6·5 mm. diam., bluish purple.

DIST.: N., S., St. Montane to subalpine damp grassland and herbfield, descending to near sealevel in southernmost part of its range.

FL.- FT. 10-2.