Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Bay of Islands. Type: K, J. D. Hooker.

Shrub up to c. 3 m. tall; branches slender, subdivaricate, us. ± interlacing; branchlets slender, pubescent. Lvs on ± winged slender pubescent petioles 3-5 mm. long. Stipules small, triangular, subacute, ± pubescent, ciliate, terminal tuft consipicuous. Lamina subcorica., glab., orbicular-ovate, spathulate, obtuse, minutely apiculate, ± 8-13 × 8-10 mm. Reticulations of veins evident on both surfaces. ♂ in fascicles of 3-6; calyx 0; corolla funnelform, lobes ± = tube, ovate, acute. ♀ solitary or in axillary clusters of 2-4 along short branchlets; calyx-teeth minute; corolla funnelform, lobes ovate, acute, = or > tube. Drupe black, globose, 3-4 mm. diam.

DIST.; N., S. Lowland swamps and boggy ground, shrubland and forest from c. lat. 35º to 43º west of divide.