Locally common - but flowering plants with buds often nipped off by possums - in low windswept ultramafic shrubland dominated by kahikatoa (Leptospermum aff. scoparium (s)), Geniostoma ligustrifolium var. crassum x G. ligustrifolium var. ligustrifolium, Cassinia amoena, Coprosma neglecta, Hebe aff. ligustrifolia, H. brevifolia, and tangles of taihoa (Cassytha paniculata)