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Family
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Slender, often flexibly stemmed plants, up to 70 cm tall. Lamina 6–15×2–3 mm, usually sparsely to moderately densely covered adaxially and abaxially with sericeous to villous white hairs. Flowers – ♀ tube 3 mm long, ovary portion 2 mm, calyx lobes 1.3×0.7 mm; tube 6 mm long, ovary portion 2.3 mm, calyx lobes 2×1.3 mm with no hairs inside tube. The nature of the fruits is uncertain.
[Reproduced from Burrows (2011, New Zealand J. Bot. 49: 367–412) with permission from The Royal Society of New Zealand.]