Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Great Barrier Id. Type: W, Kirk.

Openly branched glab. shrub up to 4 m. tall, us. less, generally epiphytic. Branches stout, bark purplish. Lvs us. crowded or sub-whorled towards tips of branchlets; lamina very thick, coriac., 5-10-(12) × 2-3 cm., on petioles c. 1 cm. long; narrow-obovate and cuneately narrowed to petiole, to obovate-oblong, obtuse. Fls terminal, solitary or up to 4 in a cluster. Sepals narrow-ovate to narrow-oblong, acute to acuminate, glab. to pilose, c. 1 cm. long; petals bright yellow, c. 2 cm. long, linear, acute, sharply reflexed. Capsules 2.5-4 cm. long, elliptic-obovate to elliptic in outline, compressed; 2-valved, valves glab., coriac.

DIST.: N. Lowland to montane forest from lat. 35° to 39° 30'.

FL.- FT. 11-1.