Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Mangatete, near Kaitaia. Type: A, 8627, T.F.C., sphagnum swamp.

Plant with very slender to filiform stolons bearing several bladders c. 2 mm. long. Lvs radical, soon falling, 4-6 mm. long, occ. reduced to scales, very narrow linear-spathulate. Scape up to c. 8 cm. tall, very slender to filiform, 1-3-fld; bracts minute. Fls subsessile, ± 5-8 mm. long. Calyx-lobes ± equal, suborbicular, ± 3 mm. diam. Corolla white or very faintly lavender-tinted; upper lip deeply 2-lobed, c. 6 mm. long, about linear-oblong; lower lip broad, entire, ± sinuate; palate not or very slightly thickened; spur ± 5 mm. long, minutely 2-horned at tip. Capsule subglobose, ± 3·5-4-(5) mm. diam.

DIST.: N. Lowland boggy places from about lat. 35° to 38°.

FL. 11-1.