Ngā Rauropi Whakaoranga

PUTAPUTAWĒTĀ, punawētā (Stewart Island - Beever 1991), putāwētā, piripiriwhata (Buchanan 1869, Conservator of State Forests 1877), piripiri wata (Taylor 1855), kai-wētā (Best 1907). 

Marble leaf, white māpau Buchanan, putaputaweta

Among museum artefacts he tested Wallace 1989 found a teka made of putaputawētā.

Name means "full of weta holes". Wētā grubs tunnel it extensively (Anderson 1954).