Class
Family
Genus
Loosely matted flaccid herb 3–40 cm tall, often much-branched, creeping and rooting near base. Stems strigillose all round at least in upper portions, also with glandular hairs in infl. Lamina of lf narrowly to very broadly ovate, 0.4–2.6 × 0.4–1.4 cm. Floral tube 0.9–1.2 mm deep, glandular and strigillose. Petals white, 3.3–6.2 × 1.6–3.5 mm. Capsule sparsely strigillose and with glandular hairs, 2.5–5.5 cm long; fruiting pedicel 0.5–6.5 cm long.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Flowering: Nov.–Mar.