Montia racemosa (Buchanan) Heenan

Herb, up to 40 cm diam., forming loose sparse tufts, rarely forming compact mats. Leaves up to 30 × 1.8 mm, narrow and approaching linear; lamina narrowly elliptic to narrowly lanceolate; adaxial and abaxial surfaces brown to green-brown, usually glossy; adaxial surface convex; adaxial surface flat to sometimes slightly concave; apex subacute to obtuse; petiole indistinct and grading into lamina base; old leaves red-brown to orange-red. Involucral leaves 2.3–2.4 × 2.3–2.4 mm, red-brown; lateral fold absent; apex obtuse. Flowers 8.0–12.0 mm diam. Tepals 4.0–6.2 × 2.2— 3.5 mm, broadly elliptic to obovate, white and flushed pink in bud and when mature, not overlapping; apex obtuse, sometimes with a shallow notch; claw not, or only weakly, differentiated. Nectary orange-yellow. Filaments 2.2–2.5 mm long, ≤½ tepal length, white, distinctly curved at apex. Anthers 0.8–1.1 × 0.6–0.7 mm, cream. Ovary 0.6–0.7 × 0.6– 0.7 mm, obovoid, red-brown to red-green; sutures not prominent. Style 1.1–1.3 mm long; flushed pink. Stigmatic branches 1.2 mm long, fluorescent pink, straight prior to spreading. Capsule 2.1–2.2 × 2.2– 2.3 mm. Seeds 1.2–1.4 × 1.1–1.2 mm, slightly to moderately rugose, dark brown. FL Nov–Jan; FT Dec–Mar.

[Reproduced from Heenan (1999, New Zealand J. Bot. 37: 213-234, as Neopaxia racemosa (Buchanan) Heenan) with permission from The Royal Society of New Zealand.]