Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Bealey Gorge. Type: W, T. Kirk, Jan. 24, 1876.

Forming patches up to c. 2 dm. diam., stems glab., rather stout to slender; branches and branchlets sts with a few odd hairs. Lvs sub-membr. on ± ciliolate petioles 1-3 mm. long; stipules truncate to bluntly triangular, glab. Lamina glab. or with a very few hairs on both surfaces, broad-ovate, 3-5 × 3-5 mm., subacute to acute or occ. obtuse, ± apicuate, cuneately rounded to base; margins ciliate with flat soft jointed hairs. Fls minute, sessile; calyx truncate, ± ciliolate. Corolla glab., funnelform, c. 3-4 mm. long; lobes 4-5, linear, recurved. Anthers slightly to well-exserted; styles 2-3. Drupe orange, ± hairy, globose, c. 4 mm. diam.

DIST.: S. Lowland to montane forest from c. lat. 43º southwards, apparently local.

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

Placed by Cheeseman (Man. N.Z. Fl. 1925, 878) as synonymous with N. dichondraefolia, but clearly distinct from most forms of that sp. N. ciliata probably occurs on the Ruahine range also.