Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "mountains above Tarndale, alt. 5000 ft". Type: K, No. 13, Sinclair, 1861. Lvs much dissected.

Slender herb up to 15 cm. tall, sparsely clad in long white hairs to glabrate; stock short, slender. Lvs all radical on very slender petioles up to 5 cm. or more long; sheath short, membr. Lamina narrow-oblong in outline, 2-5 cm. long, bipinnate to bipinnatisect to multifid, primary pinnae in up to 6 pairs, final segs linear to linear-lanceolate, acute. Scapes very slender, nude, up to 10 cm. or more long, 1-fld. Fls 1-2 cm. diam.; sepals 5, ± glab., oblong; petals 5-(10), twice length of sepals, golden yellow, narrow obovate, rounded to minutely retuse at apex; gland small, basal. Fruiting heads globose, small; achenes turgid, glab.; style short, subulate, straight.

DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine damp grassland and herbfield from lat. 42° to 46°.

FL. 10-1. FT. 11-2.

Kirk (Stud. Fl. 1899, 12) describes his var. angustatus from plants collected on Mount Maungatua, Otago, collected by Petrie. Lvs narrow-oblong, 2-4 cm. long, petiole pilose, pinnae deeply incised; scapes very slender, pilose; fls small. Kirk, however, thought his var. should probably be placed under R. gracilipes.