Cistus psilosepalus Sweet

Spreading, somewhat viscid, shrub to 1 m high. Shoots green, with dense glandular and sparse pilose hairs. Lvs sessile, 1.7–4 × 0.4–1.5 cm, oblong to narrow-elliptic or elliptic, ± 3-nerved, with hairs stellate beneath and sometimes almost confined to veins, white-pilose above; simple hairs bulbous-based; lf pairs often ± connate at base; apex ± subacute; margin somewhat revolute. Cymes to 10-flowered. Peduncles to c. 5 cm long, with glandular hairs and pilose; pedicels shorter and more densely pilose than peduncles. Bracts large and foliose. Sepals 5; outer sepals 1–1.5 cm long, broad-ovate, white-pilose, often purplish, cordate at base, acuminate or subulate at apex; inner sepals similar but narrower. Petals 1.3–1.6 cm long, obovate, white with yellow base, strongly crumpled until full anthesis. Stigma almost sessile, large and capitate. Capsule c. 7 mm long, hairy. Seed angular, glabrous.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: Oct.–Dec.