Class
Family
Genus
Tufted herb with wiry stems, branched. Stems black to pale brown, 8–25 cm long, sometimes sprawling, with lines of ± appressed short hairs. Lamina of lf usually broadly elliptic to rotund, rarely elliptic, 2–8 × 1–3 mm. Floral tube 0.4–0.6 mm deep, strigillose outside. Petals white, 2–2.9 × 0.8–1.9 mm. Capsules with conspicuous bands of strigillose hairs along the lines of dehiscence, thus appearing striped light and dark, rarely strigillose all over, 0.9–2.2 cm long; fruiting pedicel 0.2–1.6 cm long.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Flowering: Dec.–Feb.