Class
Family
Genus
Herb, often sprawling and branching at base. Stems ± erect, 10–40 cm tall, strigillose all round, densely so in lines decurrent from margins of petioles, often also with a few glandular hairs. Lamina of lf broadly ovate, 3–25 × 3–20 mm. Floral tube 0.5–1.5 mm deep, sparsely glandular-hairy. Petals white, 2–2.5 × 1.5–3.5 mm. Capsule subglabrous to strigillose, 2–5 cm long; fruiting pedicel 1.5–4.2 cm long.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Flowering: Oct.–Feb.