Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Wairarapa Valley. Type: K, Colenso.

Erect closely branched softly wooded shrub up to c. 1·5 m. tall; branchlets 4-angled, pubescent when young. Lvs on petioles ± 4-12 mm. long. Lamina ± 4-12-(15) mm. long, broad-ovate to ovate-oblong to suborbicular, membr., sts irregularly lobed. Fls axillary, solitary or in very small, few-fld cymes on very short, 2-bracted peduncles. Calyx-lobes subulate, persistent; corolla pubescent, white, sts flushed pale blue. Cocci ("pyrenes") hispid.

DIST.: N., S. Coastal to lowland forests and shrubland, especially marginal, local, from lat. 35° to 46° 30'.

FL. 10-1. FT. 12-3.