Class
Order
Family
Openly branched glab. shrub up to 4 m. tall, us. less, generally epiphytic. Branches stout, bark purplish. Lvs us. crowded or sub-whorled towards tips of branchlets; lamina very thick, coriac., 5–10–(12) × 2–3 cm., on petioles c. 1 cm. long; narrow-obovate and cuneately narrowed to petiole, to obovate-oblong, obtuse. Fls terminal, solitary or up to 4 in a cluster. Sepals narrow-ovate to narrow-oblong, acute to acuminate, glab. to pilose, c. 1 cm. long; petals bright yellow, c. 2 cm. long, linear, acute, sharply reflexed. Capsules 2.5–4 cm. long, elliptic-obovate to elliptic in outline, compressed; 2-valved, valves glab., coriac.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Fruiting: Nov.–Jan.