Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Rainbow Mountain. Type: K, J. D. Barron, Dec. 1928.

Erect shrub up to c. 2 m. tall, with ascending to spreading branches; branchlets ± setose. Lvs alt., on thick petioles c.3 mm. long; lamina coriac., elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 3-5 × 1-2 cm., abruptly mucronate, rather abruptly narrowed to base; margins finely serrulate-crenulate, us. rather densely clad in stiff hairs when young. Fls towards the tips of the branchlets in axillary panicles up to c.6cm. long and broad. Axisclad in whitish hairs; bracts keeled, ovate, acuminate, ± 3 mm. long. Pedicels c. 4-6 mm. long, pubescent, setose hairs few, bracteoles 2, ovate, c.1·5 mm. long. Calyx deeply 5-lobed; lobes ovate-triangular, acute to acuminate, glab., 2-2.5 mm. long. Corolla glab., urceolate; tube 3·5-6 mm. long; lobes c. 1·25 mm. long, oblong, recurved. Anthercells distinctly 2-awned; filaments 1·5 mm. long, papillose, slightly expanded towards base, then abruptly narrowed to insertion. Capsule 3-4 × 3-4 mm., invested by dry calyx. Style cylindric, c. 2 mm. long.

DIST.: N. Open grassland and rocky places from c. lat 38º to 39º.

FL. 10-12. FT. 11-2.