Scutellaria minor Huds.

Slender-stemmed perennial herb with short rhizomes. Aerial stems to c. 20 cm long, lax, green, puberulent, especially on the angles. Petiole 2–3 mm long, green. Lamina 7–20 × 4–10 mm, membranous, puberulent on veins below, with hairs scattered above, entire; lowest lvs ovate to suborbicular; mid and upper lvs lanceolate or linear-lanceolate; base truncate to rounded. Fls in axillary pairs; bracts subtending upper pairs of fls small, ± linear. Pedicels 1–1.5 mm long at anthesis, glandular-hairy. Calyx c. 1.5 mm long at anthesis, glandular-hairy; scale c. 0.5 mm long, accrescent. Corolla 7–8 mm long to apex of lower lip, whitish or pale pink, with prominent pinkish purple spots inside lower lip, glandular-puberulent outside; tube 4.5–5.5 mm long, slightly curved upwards, ampliate; lower lip > upper lip, 3-lobed with middle lobe broad; upper lip deeply emarginate. Filaments ± pilose, the longer pair > style. Ovules seated on orange gynophore. Nutlets not seen.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: Jan.–Mar.