Cyathodes robusta Hook.f.
C. acerosa var. latifolia Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1854, 164.
Type: K, Dieffenbach. One good branched specimen in fr. The lvs ± 15 × 7 mm., the frs (dry) ± 7 mm.
Similar to C. juniperina but much stouter, up to c. 5 m. tall. Lvs coriac., rigid, patent, 12-20 × 3-7 mm., 5-11-nerved, narrow-oblong to narrow-lanceolate, subsessile to shortly petioled; margins recurved; apex obtuse to subacute, callous tip blunt. Infl. of solitary axillary fls on curved peduncles. Bracts many, imbricate, broad, obtuse. Fls c. 3 mm. long; corolla-tube but little > calyx, lobes glab. on upper surface. Fr. red, globose, 7-12 mm. diam.
DIST.: Ch. Rocky places and shrubland.
