Flora of New Zealand Series

D. urvilleanum var. scoparium Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1867, 736.

D. subantarcticum Ckn. Veg. N.Z. 1921, 265 (nomennudum).

Type locality: Campbell Id. Type: K. J. D. Hooker, Dec. 1840, 1611.

Erect, up to c. 2 m. tall, branches stout, strict, with dark chestnut-brown to nearly black bark; branchlets strict, crowded. Lvs rather rigid, close-set, crowded towards tips of branchlets. Sheath cililate, thin-margined, (10)-12-(15) × (3)-4-7 mm., passing by subtruncate shoulder into lamina (3)-6-8 cm. × (1)-2-(3) mm., tomentose above, glab. below, gradually tapering to subpungent apex; margins densely clad in silky hairs, very minutely serrulate. Infl. of 3-6-fld racemes ± 3 cm. long, or fls solitary. Bracts broad-ovate with subulate tips and white ciliolate margins, pubescent above near tips. Fls shortly peduncled, inconspicuous; sepals pubescent near tips, ovate, ± = corolla-tube which is 3-4-(5) mm. long. Corolla-lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse. Capsule obovoid.

DIST.: C. Shrubland, moor.