Flora of New Zealand Series

Scape c. 30 cm high, compressed. Leaves glaucous, ± channelled. Flowers 4-8-(20) per scape, usually fragrant, oblique, horizontal or nodding; pedicels long; tube narrow-cylindric, greenish; lobes < tube, white; corona ¼-½ length of lobes, cup-shaped, lemon-yellow or orange, margin entire.

N., S. Scattered. Persistent garden outcast in grass on roadsides.

(Mediterranean)

First record: Healy 1958: 542, as N. tazetta agg.

First collection: "Makino, near Feilding in grass on roadside, A. J. Healy 53/816, 19.8.1953, large clumps" (CHR 83214).

FL. 8-10.

The above description covers N. tazetta sens. strict. which has flowers with white lobes and lemon-yellow or orange corona, but other forms of ' Tazetta Narcissi' with a) yellow lobes and yellow or orange corona, or b) white lobes and a white corona are also cultivated and may equally well occur as garden outcasts.