Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Near Blackball, Westland. Type: CHR 144979I. Robins, 1963.

Plant very slender, us. < 30 cm. tall unless drawn up by surrounding plants. Lvs us. < 10 mm. wide, narrowing to subacute tip, often flaccid. Peduncle slender, often flexuous and ± procumbent. Raceme short and broad with few, well spaced fls; bracts short with wide sheathing base, hiding young buds but in fr. much shorter than pedicel; pedicels long, spreading, often upturned at tip. Fls bisexual; per. 9.5–13 mm. diam., shrivelled and pendent from base of ripening capsule. Ovary and capsule stipitate, the capsule globose above the gynophore, 4.5–5 mm. diam. Seeds 3.5–4 mm. long, brown, smooth, rounded and without wings. 2n = 14.

DIST.: S., west of main divide, known from Buller district to Okarito,

in damp lowland areas, particularly on pakihi land.

FL. 12–1. FT. 12–2.