Flora of New Zealand Series

Fig 24A

Robust, evergreen, forming dense clumps to 60 cm high, with thick elongate rhizome. Leaves to 20 on each shoot, 20-70 × 1.5-5.5 cm. ± leathery, arching, canaliculate. Flowers light blue, or white, in many- flowered umbels, 4-4.5 cm long, to 7 cm diam.; tube c. 1.5 cm long; lobes spreading; pedicels 4-9 cm long. Capsule 3-4 cm long.

N. Auckland City; Bay of Plenty - Whakatane, Opotiki. S. Nelson - near Westport; Canterbury - near Christchurch, Lyttelton; Otago - near Oamaru, Port Chalmers, Andersons Bay (Dunedin). Occasional on coastal cliffs; rare and local on roadsides and in waste land.

(S. Africa)

First record: Neumann 1952: 695

First collection: Westport, near Orowaiti Estuary, roadside, R. Mason and N. T. Moar 2150, 31.1.1953 ()

FL.12-2.