Flora of New Zealand Series

Annual with procumbent or ascending hairy stems to c. 20 cm long. Rosette lvs with petioles to c. 8 cm long. Lamina to c. 4.5 × 2.5 cm, ± ovate-oblong, lobulate; lobes extending < 1/2 way to midrib, crenate, hairy and ± glandular beneath, particularly on the veins; base of lf cordate. Stipules broadly ovate, membranous, obtuse. Umbels few-flowered; peduncles and pedicels densely covered in glandular-hairs; bracts membranous, obtuse. Sepals 4-4.5 mm long, ovate-oblong, with dense short glandular and often stiff white hairs, mucronate. Petals pink or mauve-pink, c. 1.5× sepals; claw very short. Stamens c. 3 mm long, wider at base; anthers dark. Staminodes wider than stamens. Fr. beak 2-2.3 cm long, glabrous. Mericarps with appressed white hairs; apical pits glandular, with 1 prominent furrow beneath.

N.: Mangonui and Bay of Islands (N. Auckland), Wellington.

Mediterranean region to Iran 1883

Rare.

This sp. has not been collected recently and material is sparse and incomplete. However, Healy, A. J. and West, K. R., in Healy, A. J., Identification of Weeds and Clovers ed. 3 (1982), stated that it still persists at Mangonui.