Flora of New Zealand Series

M. pendens Col. in T.N.Z.I. 12, 1880, 360.

Type locality: "Forests, head of the Manawatu River." Type: W, Colenso.

Tall liane, parts densely pilose-pubescent when young, hairs brownish; branchlets very slender, drooping, up to c. 5 dm. long; lvs ± 15-20 × 5-10 mm., indumentum becoming sparser in age; fls white or faintly pink-tinged; sepals acuminate, recurved, > petals; receptacle much exceeding adnate ovary.

DIST.: N. Lowland forests. Kirk (loc. cit.) gives: "Whangape, Waikato, T. K., and head of the Manawatu River." It is common in the drainage area of the Manawatu River.