Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Shaded woods at Wangaroa ". Type: K, R. Cunningham, 1833.

Branching shrub up to ± 1 m. tall; branchlets thinly pubescent. Lvs on petioles up to 5 mm. or more long; lamina submembr., elliptic to elliptic- to lanceolate-oblong, obtuse to subacute, of 2 main dimensions on different plants((a) 15-20 × 5-6 mm.; (b) 25-50 × 7-15-(20) mm. Margins entire or with a few obscure teeth, surface subglaucous below. Infl. of solitary fls or 2-(4) in a fascicle. Fls 10-15 mm. long. Corolla funnelform, greenish to reddish yellow; lobes 4, ± erose and fimbriate. Berry 5-7 mm. long, ovoid to broad-ellipsoid, red.

DIST.: N. Lowland forest from lat. 35º to 36º.

FL. (5)-8-11. FT. 10-12-?

There appear to be two vars distinguished by If-size and -form. The complex is treated as a var. of linariifolia by Hooker and Kirk and as synonymous with that sp. by Cheeseman.