Flora of New Zealand Series

Erect herb up to 8-(25) cm high at flowering, arising from a slender stock. Basal lvs up to 7-(12) cm long, white-pilose, imparipinnate; lateral leaflets in up to 10 pairs, reduced and often minute; terminal leaflet 10-25 mm long, serrate-dentate; cauline lvs few and bract-like, deeply toothed. Peduncle up to 8-(25) cm high. Infl. usually of several fls, very rarely fls solitary. Petals (1)-2-3-(5) mm long, white. Achenes usually glabrous, rarely with a few hairs on shoulder.

N.: Mt Egmont, Ruahine Mountains; S.: mountains throughout; St.

Endemic.

Alpine bogs, tussock grassland, herbfield, fellfield, snowbanks, streambanks, scrub.

FL Nov-Feb FT Jan-Apr.

The achenes of G. leiospermum are usually glabrous; plants with somewhat hairy achenes can usually be distinguished from the other widespread native sp., G. parviflorum, by the short, stout, curved style and more reduced cauline lvs.