Ngā Rauropi Whakaoranga

Chenopodium pusillum

parahia; panamata [Taylor - doubtful] 

These straggly perennial herbs were the main weeds of kūmara crops in pre-European gardens. (G. Harris, pers comm.)

' The panamata, paraihia [sic], is a diminutive kind of spinach, with a very dark leaf' (Taylor 1855)

Considered endemic, though it appears in modified habitats such as roadsides (Webb et al, 1988)

"Parahia, a low spreading weed (Ctenopodium pusillum) [sic.], is particularly plentiful at Taupo." (Colenso 1879)

See also Einadia allanii.