Kirkianella Allan
Taproot stout, us. not branched above. Lvs c. 2 5 cm. long, submembr., lineolate when dry. Terminal lobe 3-5 × 3-5 mm., lateral lobes cut to narrow winged axis, diminishing to minute blunt teeth along narrow petiole. Upper surface nearly glab. when mature, lower remaining ± densely clad in white scurfy tomentum. Scapes 2-5 cm. long, very slender, rather densely clad in glandular hairs, with one or more linear bracteoles immediately under capitulum. Capitula c. 1-1·5 cm. long, 1·5 cm. diam. Outer phyll. narrow-ovate, up to c. 3 mm. long, densely tomentose and ± furnished with glandular hairs on back; inner up to 1 cm. long, sublinear, narrowed from base to below slightly widened dark apex, scarious to membr. Fertile achenes c. 2 mm. long, finely grooved, subfusiform. Pappus up to c. 7 mm. long, very slender, obscurely barbellate.
DIST.: S. Described from specimens collected in open grassland near Lake Tekapo. Similar forms are not uncommon in montane tussock-grassland from lat. 43° to 45° east of divide.
