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Manual of the New Zealand Flora.

3. Liparophyllum, Hook. f

3. Liparophyllum, Hook. f.

A small creeping herb. Leaves linear, tufted, entire. Peduncles solitary, terminal, 1-flowered. Flowers small, white. Calyx deeply 5-partite; segments linear. Corolla subrotate, deeply 5-lobed: lobes with broad thin margins, induplicate-valvate. Stamens 5; filaments short, broad; anthers oblong. Ovary 1-celled, with 2 parietal placentas; style very short; stigma broadly 2-lamellace. Fruit globose, fleshy or succulent, indehiscent. Seeds numerous; testa crustaceous.

A monotypic genus, confined to New Zealand and Tasmania.

1.L. Grtinnii, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. (1847) 472.—Small, perfectly glabrous. Rhizome 3–9 in. long, stout, creeping, branched, emitting long thick rootlets. Leaves tufted, ½–1 in. long, narrow-linear or linear-spathulate, obtuse, thick and fleshy, with a broad membranous sheathing base, quite entire. Peduncles stout, much shorter than the leaves. Flowers small, ⅙ in. diam. Calyx almost equalling the corolla; segments linear, fleshy, acute. Corolla divided ⅔ way down; lobes ovate, 3-nerved, margins undulate. Stamens inserted just below the sinus of the page 457 lobes. Ovary broadly ovoicl or almost globose; ovules numerous. Fruit globose, about ¼ in. diam. Seeds orbicular, somewhat compressed.—Fl. Tasm. i. 273, t. 87; Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 381; Peine in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xii. (1880) 354.

South Island: Nelson—Mount Rochfort and other mountains near West-port, Dr. Gaze! W. Townson! Otago—Longwood Range, Kirk! Stewart Island: Muddy flats at Port Pegasus and Paterson's Inlet, Petrie! G. M. Thomson! Kirk! Sea-level to 3500 ft.

A curious little plant, probably not uncommon in mountain bogs on the west side of the South Island.