Flora of New Zealand Series

G. monoica var. strigosa (Col.) Kirk in T.N.Z.I. 27, 1895, 343.

Type locality: "On clay banks in forest between Norsewood and Dannevirke." Type: W. Colenso's specimens have petioles up to 30 mm. long, lamina up to 15 × 12 mm., cordate, crenate.

Stolons rather stout, up to ± 4 dm. long; lvs on petioles (15)-20-70-(80) mm. long, canaliculate, strigose-hairy. Lamina subcoriac., dull green, cordate-orbicular to reniform, 10-25 × 7-25 mm., sts more, crenately 5-8-(11)-lobed; lobes themselves crenate; surfaces strigose-hairy especially on veins. ♂ part of infl. branched below and sts above; fls subsessile, bracts minute, acuminate; calyx lobes ovate-acuminate, 1·5 mm. long, tube obsolete, staminal filaments c. 3 mm. long. ♀ part compactly branched. Drupe globose to ovoid, bright red ± 2.5 mm. long.

Dist.: N., S., St. Lowland damp places in forest and by stream-sides or in grassland from lat. 35° southwards.

FL. 10-1. FT. 12-4.

Cheeseman (Man. N.Z. Fl. 1925, 627) describes the drupes as "bright-red or reddish-white".