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Erect bushy shrub up to ± 1 m. tall; branchlets slender, pubescent, ± close-set. Lvs crowded, on petioles c. 5 mm. long. Lamina submembr., obliquely to subfalcately linear to very narrowly lanceolate, acute to obtuse, of two main dimensions((a) 15–25 × 1–3 mm.; (b) 40–100 × 4–10 mm. Margins subentire or with a few minute teeth, in the larger form the teeth may be coarse and prominent. Infl. of solitary fls or 2–5 together. Fls 10–17 mm. long; corolla-tube slightly flaring, greenish yellow; lobes 4, ± erose and fimbriate. Berry ovoid to turbinate, 3–5 mm. diam., red.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Alseuosmia linariifolia]