Haastia pulvinaris Hook.f.
Type locality: Kaikoura Mountains. Type: K, Sinclair, 1860.
Plant forming rounded masses up to 2 m. diam.; branchlets with lvs c. 2 cm. diam., very densely compacted. Lvs c. 8-10 × 6-10 mm.; tip thickened and crenulate and concealed by dense brush of long tangled slightly fulvous hairs, both surfaces or abaxial only clad in long hairs; veins 3-15, anastomosing above. Receptacle flat or slightly convex, c. 5 mm. diam. Phyll. linear, obtuse to acute, glab. except at tips. Achenes compressed, linear, c. 2 mm. long. Pappus-hairs flattened at base, up to 9 mm. long.
DIST.: S. Subalpine and alpine fellfield and rocks among screes from lat. 41° to 42° 30', east of divide. Vegetable sheep.
FL.- FT. 12-3.
