Flora of New Zealand Series

G. rupestris var.( Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 175.

Type locality: Base of Mount Tongariro. Type: K. Colenso 2410, June 1850.

Low-growing, ± sprawling; branchlets ± pubescent, without setose hairs. Lvs rather uniform, stiff, coriac., on petioles up to ± 1 mm. long. Lamina ± 8-12 × 5-9 mm., oblong to broad-oblong, obtuse, ± mucronulate, subtruncate at base; margins crenulate to subentire. Fls in terminal and occ. subterminal racemes up to c. 4 cm. long; pedicels at first pendent, up to c. 5 mm. long, erecting in fr.; bracteoles ovate-acuminate to ovate-acute, ± 2.5 mm. long. Calyx deeply 5-lobed; lobes ovate-triangular, acute or subacute, c. 1·5 mm. long. Corolla urceolate, pubescent within; tube 2.5 mm. long, lobes short-triangular, recurved. Filaments up to 2 mm. long, widened towards base, then narrowed to insertion; anther-awns distinct. Capsule ± 3 mm. diam.

DIST.: N. Montane open and rocky places, grassland from c. lat. 38º southwards. FL 11-1.

FT. 12-3.