Flora of New Zealand Series

Mimulus? radicans Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1854, 188.

Type locality: Tararua Range. Type: K, Colenso 1963.

Stem creeping, rooting at nodes, rather stout, sts below ground, emitting lfy ± erect branches 2-5 cm. tall. Lvs 2-5 cm. long including petiole, close-set, hairy to glab., obovate to narrow-obovate, obtuse, gradually narrowed to petiole, entire or obscurely sinuate. Peduncles 1-3-fld, erect, glab. to pilose; bracts 1-2, linear-subulate. Calyx campanulate, laxly clad in white spreading hairs, not angled. Corolla-tube ± 1 cm. long; limb ± 1 cm. long, white with yellow throat; upper lip erect; lower larger, spreading. Stamens 4; 2 lower = corolla-tube, 2 upper shorter. Style 2-lobed. Capsule 8-9 mm. long, ovoid, enclosed in persistent calyx.

DIST.: N. Near Rotorua, Egmont-Pouakai Range, head of Wairarapa Valley, Tararua Range. S. Not uncommon throughout. Habitats as for M. pumilio.

FL.- FT. 11-3.

Lvs often have brown markings and the corolla-lips are us. partly purple.