Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Swineburn Valley, near Kyeburn. Type: BD 63000A, G. Simpson.

Slender erect or spreading openly branched shrub up to c. 2m. tall; branches and branchlets ± divaricate; branchlets pubescent when young, bark pale to rather dark brown. Lvs in opp. pairs or fascicles on slender petioles 1-2 mm. long. Stipules minute, broadly oblong-triangular, obtuse, ciliolate. Lamina narrow-oblong to narrowly obovate-oblong, sts slightly curved, subacute, apiculate, (7)-9-10-(15) × 1-2 mm.; margins reddish. Midrib and sts principal secondary veins evident below. ♂? ♀ solitary, shortly stalked; calyx 2 mm. long with linear-triangular lobes; corolla purplish, c. 5 mm. long, tubular, deeply cut into linear subacute lobes. Drupe (seen by me only in dry state) c. 4 mm. long.

DIST.: S. Rocky places and debris slopes, Longslip Stream valley, near Lindis Pass, and other places in Central Otago.

Similar forms of undetermined status occur in the upper Awatere Valley.