Gentianella saxosa (G.Forst.) Holub

Plants polycarpic, height in flower 40–170 mm. Flowering stems terminal and lateral or lateral only, (2–)4–16 per plant, stems tinted purple-black, lateral flowering stems decumbent, 1.3–2.6 mm diam. when dry, flowering stem leaves 4–5 pairs per stem, lowest pedicels from halfway up flowering stem. Rosette leaves narrowly elliptic to elliptic, leaf apex rounded, 17.8–87 mm long, 3.2– 17.5 mm wide, green, not recurved; petiole distinct, 14.5–64 mm long, 0.7–3.4 mm wide at leaf base. Pedicels 1 per axil, 10–67 mm long, 1.4–1.5 mm diam., 0.7–1.3 mm diam. when dry. Flowers 9–82 per plant, 15.0–24.2 mm long. Calyx 6.8–8.8 mm long, green; lobes 4.5–6.2 mm long, 2.0–3.2 mm wide at base, distinctly recurved, apices acute, margins minutely denticulate, sinus hairs absent. Corolla 13.7–15.7 mm long, white, veins uncoloured; tube 3.5–4.0 mm long; lobes 9.6–11.2 mm long, 6.7– 7.4 mm wide; nectaries 2.5–3.7 mm from corolla base. Filaments 7.6–8.1 mm long from corolla base, 0.7–0.8 mm wide. Anthers 2.0–2.1 mm long, anther wall blue-black, mouth yellow, extrorse at anthesis. Stigma colourless. Ovules 30–44 per ovary. Capsule 10.0–19.3 mm long. FL late Jan–early Feb.

[Reproduced from Glenny (2004, New Zealand J. Bot. 42: 361-530) with permission from The Royal Society of New Zealand.]