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Slender erect shrub to 2 m tall, sometimes very small; branches often fascicled, erect, ± virgate; branchlets puberulous when young. Lvs ascending at first, becoming ± patent, close-set, 4–8–(10) × 1–4 mm, coriaceous, glabrous, often tinted red, on very short petioles. Lamina concave above, not keeled on back, lanceolate-oblong, oblong, ovate, rhombic-ovate to oblong-ovate; veins obscure; apex ± apiculate to narrow-acuminate. Fls solitary, axillary, aggregated towards tips of branchlets; peduncles c. 1.5 mm long. Bracts usually 10–20, strongly imbricate, ovate, conspicuously striate. Corolla white, c. 4–5 mm diam.; lobes patent, broad-oblong, obtuse to subacute, > tube. Capsule ± 1.5 mm long, subglobose, lobed.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Flowering: Jan.–Dec.