Flora of New Zealand Series

type locality: "Meadows at Freshwater River, alt. 100 ft." in sandy soil. Type: W, 2145, D. L. Poppelwell.

Tufted herb with rosulate lvs, extending by lfy stolons producing offset tufts. Lamina submembr., ± 5-7 × 1-1·5-(2) cm., narrow lanceolate- to obovate-spathulate; glab. above, clad in thin greyish tomentum below with midrib evident; acute, apiculate; margins sinuate, finely serrate, cuneately narrowed to almost linear petiole up to 15 mm. long, suddenly expanded into subcoriac., glab., strongly veined sheath ± 15-20 × 7 mm. Scape rather slender, c. 15-30 cm. long, glab. or nearly so, slightly flattened and finely grooved, ± viscid. Bracts rather few, distant; lamina linear, acute, with prominent midvein. Capitula ± 25-40 mm. diam.; phyll. linear-subulate, viscid, outer reflexed, inner erect, ciliate, hairy at tips, ± 12 mm. long. Ray-florets to c. 20 mm. long, linear, spreading; disk-florets 6·5-7 mm. long, narrow-tubular, teeth minute, triangular. Achenes compressed-cylindric, c. 4 mm. long; grooves evident, clad on ribs in appressed silky hairs. Pappus-hairs very slender, sordid-white, up to 7 mm. long, hardly barbellate.

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