Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Lamiales Bromhead
Family
Orobanchaceae
Genus
Euphrasia L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Euphrasia cuneata G.Forst., Fl. Ins. Austr. 43 (1786)
Synonymy:
  • = Euphrasia tricolor Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 19: 264 (1886 [1887])
  • ≡ Euphrasia cuneata var. tricolor (Colenso) Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 553 (1906)
  • = Euphrasia diversifolia Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 49: 54 (1917)
Vernacular Name(s):
North Island eyebright; Tūtae-kiore; Tūtūmako
 Description

Perennial herb or subshrub up to 60 cm tall; stems woody below, erect or ascending; branches usually leafy with small axillary branchlets, ± uniformly or sometimes bifariously hairy with short crisped white hairs. Lvs with petiole 1–4 mm long. Lamina 5–15–(25) × 3–10 mm, ± rhomboid to ovate or suborbicular with 1–3 pairs of obtuse to subacute teeth and acute to obtuse triangular terminal lobe, glabrous. Fls on pedicels 1–3–(6) mm long. Calyx 4–8 mm long, glabrous or nearly so, divided with deepest clefts to 1/2 way. Corolla white, 15–20 mm long. Anthers red-brown, conspicuously hairy; awns usually markedly unequal, the lower 2 very long. Capsule distinctly > calyx, 6–8–(10) × 2–3 mm.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Jan.–Apr.–(Jun.)

 Bibliography
Colenso, W. 1887: A description of some newly-discovered and rare indigenous phænogamic plants, being a further contribution towards making known the Botany of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 19: 259–271.
Cheeseman, T.F. 1906: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Government Printer, Wellington.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]
Forster, J.G.A. 1786: Florulae Insularum Australium Prodromus. Dietrich, Göttingen.
Petrie, D. 1917: Descriptions of New Native Flowering-Plants, with Some Notes on Known Species. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 49: 51–55.