Class
Family
Genus
Herb, creeping and rooting at nodes, often densely matted with crowded lvs, or with erect reddish stems to 15 cm tall. Stems glabrous or with lines of fine strigillose hairs decurrent from margins of petioles. Lamina of lf narrowly elliptic or elliptic, 6–20 × 2–5.5 mm. Floral tube 0.5–1.1 mm deep, glabrous. Petals white, 3.3–5 × 3.6 mm. Capsule glabrous, 0.8–2.2 cm long; fruiting pedicel (0.2)–1–4 cm long.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Flowering: Dec.–Jan.