Flora of New Zealand Series

L. campestris (L.) DC. var. petriana Buch. in Öst. bot. Z.  48,  1898,  219.

Type: WELT, 12582, Kelly's Hill, Westland, 4,000 ft, D. Petrie (no. 1590/7 to K).

Lvs 0.7–2.5–(3.5) mm. wide, margins only slightly villous. Infl. varying from a single head to ∞ clusters on erect branchlets up to 6 cm. long; margins of subtending bracts and floral bractlets sparsely villous. 2n = 12.

DIST.: S. On the west side of the main divide and in regions of high rainfall on the east. St.

Most frequently found in fellfield or alpine herbfield from (600)–1,000–2,000 m. altitude.

In Fiordland  var. petriana us. has a many-clustered infl. with long peduncles and lvs longer and narrower than in plants from other districts. Some forms in Southland have lvs wider at the base than usual.

Both vars. of L. crinita may be distinguished by the very dark brown tepals with scarcely any paler membr. margins.