Flora of New Zealand Series

Limnanthemum gunnii Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. 2, 1860, 358.

Herb with branching rhizomes, forming patches up to ± 2 dm. diam., 5 cm. tall; lvs aggregated at nodes, narrow-linear to linear-spathulate, thick, fleshy, obtuse to subacute, 12-25-(40) mm. long, with broad thin sheathing base. Fls solitary, c. 4 mm. diam., on very short stout peduncles. Disk fleshy, thick, undulate, with broad membr. margins. Calyx-lobes linear, c. 4 mm. long, fleshy, acute; corolla-lobes white, ovate, slightly hairy within, obtuse, undulate. Ovary tapering to short style; stigmatic lobes 2, broad. Fr. globular, succulent, indehiscent, c. 6·5 mm. diam. Seeds ∞, suborbicular, somewhat compressed, bright yellow.

DIST.: N., S., St. Montane to subalpine herbfield and boggy places from c. lat. 39° southwards, rather local, descending to lowlands in southern part of range and nearly to sealevel in St.

FL. 12-2. FT. 12-4.