Muehlenbeckia ephedroides

Muehlenbeckia ephedroides, the leafless pohuehue or leafless muehlenbeckia, is a prostrate or climbing plant native to New Zealand.

Description
Muehlenbeckia ephedroides are grey-green, grey to grey-black in colour. The stem is branched and is 1 mm in diameter. It is also flexuous, striate, puberulent, and is grey to grey-black or grey-green in colour. The leaves are of the same colour, are glabrous and are 5 - 25 mm long. Inflorescence is fascicled or racimed with pale pedicels that are 1 - 1.5 mm long. Flowers have a pistillate and are staminate as well. Lobes are narrow-triangular, and are either white, pale yellow-green or just green in colour. Stigmas are obovoid trigonous and are 1.5 mm long. They have white coloured and succulent tepals that are swollen also. The twigs are leafless.

Habitat
It grows at elevations of 0 - 1200 m in coastal or subalpine climates. It can be found growing near rivers, on beaches, sand spits, and alluvial fans.