Flora of New Zealand Series

Perennial; rosettes tufted along slender arching stolons. Basal lvs suborbicular, distinctly rounded to a truncate base, shallowly 3-lobed at apex, rarely again bluntly toothed, glabrous or hairy, thin textured, 3-6-(10) mm diam.; cauline lvs similar to basal, opposite or in lax whorls. Fls solitary; scapes short, up to 15 mm long at fruiting, hairy. Fls 3-5 mm diam. Sepals spreading, sparsely hairy. Petals 5 or 0, yellow, narrowly obovate; nectary single, 0.5-1.5 mm from petal base, covered by a small triangular scale. Receptacle hairy. Achenes (5)-10-15, slightly flattened, glabrous; body 1.5-2 mm long; beak straight or curved, c. 0.3 mm long.

N.: Egmont National Park, Kaimanawa Range, Ruahine Range; S.: N.W. Nelson mountains, Fiordland.

Endemic.

Bogs, stream banks, seepages, (0)-600-1200 m.

Wilson, H. D. and Garnock-Jones, P. J., New Zealand J. Bot. 21: 345 (1983), discussed the distribution of this sp., as R. depressus var. stewartiae.