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- ≡ Geniostoma rupestre var. ligustrifolium (A.Cunn.) B.J.Conn in Connor & Edgar, New Zealand J. Bot. 25: 140 (1987)
Glab. bushy shrub up to ± 3 m. tall; branches slender, brittle. Lvs on petioles 5–10 mm. long; lamina us. membr., pale green above, paler below (sts subglaucous); (2.5)–5–7–(9) × (1·5)–2–3–(4) cm.; ovate to broad- to elliptic-ovate, rather abruptly narrowed to acuminate apex. Infl. a cyme up to c.3 cm. diam., pedicels slender, bracted, 3–5–(10) mm. long. Calyx ± 3 mm. long; lobes ovate, acuminate, ciliolate. Corolla ± 6 mm. long, greenish to clear white; tube short, lobes at length spreading, pubescent on upper surface, ciliolate, acuminate. Anther-connective produced, lobes divergent. Ovary subglobose, style short, stigma 2-lobed. Capsule ± 5 mm. diam., 5–7–(10) mm. long, splitting into 2 mucronate valves. Seeds ∞, 1–2 mm. long, testa greyish, minutely pitted, long remaining attached to apex.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Geniostoma ligustrifolium A.Cunn.]