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- ≡ Heliohebe hulkeana (F.Muell.) Garn.-Jones, New Zealand J. Bot. 31: 328 (1993) subsp. hulkeana
- = Veronica hulkeana var. oblonga Kirk, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 28: 518 (1896)
- ≡ Hebe hulkeana var. oblonga (Kirk) Cockayne & Allan, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 57: 44 (1926)
- = Veronica lawtonii Lawton, J. Roy. Hort. Soc. 51: 313 (1926)
Young stems densely glandular- or eglandular-puberulent, old stems glabrous. Leaf lamina narrowly to broadly lanceolate, ovate, oblong, or elliptic; apex acute, sub-acute, obtuse, rounded, or truncate. Distal branches of inflorescence puberulent or glandular-puberulent. Pedicels eglandular-puberulent, 0–0.5 mm long. Calyx 1.5–2.5 mm long; lobes elliptic to broadly obovoid, sub-acute or obtuse, eglandular-ciliate or with mixed glandular and eglandular cilia. Corolla lobes glabrous or sparsely ciliate.
Distinguished from subsp. evestita by densely puberulent young stems and inflorescences and the broadly rounded eglandular-ciliate calyx lobes.
South Island: Marlborough (from near Taylor Pass and Awatere Valley, Ward Beach, southwards to Seaward Kaikōura Range), Canterbury (Seaward Kaikōura Range, Oaro, Conway River, Leader River, Waiau River mouth, Mt Grey).
River gorges, coastal cliffs, rock outcrops. Recorded elevations range from 5 to 1281 m.
In cultivation, plants of V. ×fairfieldii (V. hulkeana × lavaudiana, a cultivated hybrid) are often misidentified as V. hulkeana; these have dull, not glossy, leaves, and larger flowers with glandular hairs on the inflorescence.
Flowers: October–November; fruits: November–February.
2n = 42 (Hair 1967, as Hebe hulkeana).