Authors: Kirk
from a stout taproot to 10cm or more across and up to 5cm tall. Branchlets densely borne, erect, to 2.5cm long, sometimes reddish-flushed, flattened, l-2mm wide, leafless at maturity. Flowers in small clusters about 5mm long, purplish with darker veins, the keel sometimes greenish, early summer. South Island, in lowland to lower montane dry river gravels, open places and grassland. C. enysii var. ambigua is looser in habit with branchlets 3-5cm long and paler flowers. C.e. 'Pringle' is densely habited and very dwarf, blooming freely.
