Gaultheria macrostigma, or prostrate snowberry, is a species of Gaultheria, endemic to New Zealand.
Description A small shrub that grows either prostrate or "staggling". It has small white flowers, and the stigma (noted in the specificic name macrostigma) has been described as "large."
Range Across New Zealand.
Etymology macrostigma means "large stigma."
Taxonomy Gaultheria macrostigma was moved into this genus from Pernettya in 1990. It is also known to hybridize with Gaultheria antipoda.
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