Manual of the New Zealand Flora.
1. Stackhousia, Smith
1. Stackhousia, Smith.
Characters as above.
1. | S. minima, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 47.—A minute slender glabrous herb, with numerous creeping often matted underground stems, and short slender erect leafy branches ½–2 in. high. Leaves crowded or distant, rather fleshy, ⅙–⅓ in. long, linear or linear-oblong page 98or linear-obovate, flat, acute. Flowers small, yellow, solitary and terminal, almost sessile or on very short peduncles, always exceeding the leaves. Calyx-lobes short, acute. Petals usually connate at the middle to form a tubular corolla but often altogether free, linear, acute or acuminate, tips recurved. Stamens 3 long and 2 much shorter; anthers glabrous. Ovary 3-lobed; style very short, 3-cleft. Cocci obovoid, smooth, 1 or 2 ripening, seldom 3.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 42; Kirk, Students' Fl. 90. S. uniflora, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xviii. (1886) 258.
North Island: Hawke's Bay—Open downs on the east coast, Colenso; Waipawa County, H. Hill! South Island: Nelson—Mount Arthur Plateau, Wangapeka, T. F. C.; Spenser Mountains, Kirk! Canterbury—Ribband-wood Range, Haast; Broken River, Enys! Burnham, Kirk! Central Otago, not rare, Petrie! Sea-level to 4000 ft. December–January. Sir Joseph Hooker describes the flowers as occurring in few-flowered spikes, and the anthers as pubescent; but I have not seen any specimens answering to this. |