Flora of New Zealand Series

Type: W, 4709 (Herb. Petrie) "L. Cockayne to me ex F. G. Gibbs". The type sheet contains 2 quite comparable plants, which as Cheeseman (Man. N.Z. Fl. 1925, 726) says "might well be perennial".

Annual (?) with stiff rather slender root. Stems us. several from stock, 7·5-15 cm. tall, ascending to erect, ± branched (sts much-branched) forming small clumps. Basal lvs thin to rather coriac., few, ovate-spathulate, apparently soon falling; lamina ± 10 × 3-4 mm., on flat petioles up to 10 mm. long. Cauline lvs us. several pairs, sessile or sub-sessile, narrow- to rather broad-ovate, acute, ± 10-15 × 4-6 mm., sts lanceolate. Fls solitary, terminal. Calyx ± 15-20 mm. long, = corolla or nearly so; cut almost to base into narrow-subulate acute to sub-acuminate lobes. Corolla white, cut 4/5 way into narrow ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, subapiculate, conspicuously veined lobes.

DIST.: St. Mount Anglem.

Cheeseman says (loc. cit. 727) " It is quite possible that it may be simply a large state of G. lineata." Further specimens from the herbarium of Gibbs and more recent collections of J. F. Findlay and M. B. Ashwin, now in BD, conform to the type and do not support Cheeseman's suggestion. This is no doubt the plant listed by Cockayne in Rep. Bot. Surv. St. Id 1909, 60 as G. grisebachii ─" Form with calyx cut almost to base, and segments equalling corolla; flower ⅞ in. long."