Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Mt. Hikurangi, Waiapu Co. "on broken shingle". Type: A, 7534, D. Petrie, Jan. 1897.

Rosette-lvs c. 4 × 1·5 cm., oblong-spathulate, petiole winged and c. = lamina-length, sheathing at base, tip obtuse, apiculate, sts down-curved to look emarginate; hairs fine and silky, spreading, crowded on upper surface, on undersurface similar but sparse and regularly retrorse. Lateral branches ascending to erect, 10-15 cm. long, lfless below cyme, lower internodes = or < lvs. Stem-lvs c. 18 × 6 mm., broadly lanceolate with subacute tip, sessile; hairs similar to those on upper surface of rosette-lvs, on undersurface sparser, on lower lvs only irregularly retrorse. Cymes us. simple, ebracteate, c. 12-fld, 3-4 cm. long, internodes short; pedicels up to 2 mm. long. Calyx c. 6 mm. long, lobes > 1/2 length, ± oblong and subacute; hairs on lobes silky and closely appressed, towards base longer ones spreading and slightly hooked, shorter retrorse. Corolla white, c. 10 mm. diam., tube c. 5 mm. long and cylindric to level of scales, then flaring widely; lobes c. 3·5 × 3·5 mm., rounded-triangular; filaments fixed between scales, reaching to base of corolla-lobes, anthers to 1·5 mm. long; style 2 × calyx in fr., stigma capitate. Nutlets not seen.

DIST.: N. Known certainly only from type locality where it still grows.

FL. 12-1.

Specimens from Maungapohatu, Urewera Country (A 47788, BD 40818) without any lateral branches, have rosette-lvs matching those of M. amabilis.