Cotula traillii Kirk
Type locality: Stewart Id. Type: W, T. Kirk.
Stems slender, creeping, rooting, up to c. 3 dm. long, sulcate; branches slender, ± pilose. Lvs tufted at nodes to solitary. Lamina narrow-to broad-obovate, 2.5-5-7·5 × 1-2 cm., membr., glab. to sparsely hairy; pinnatisect or pinnatifid in upper, pinnate in lower part; pinnae 7-9 pairs, subopp. to alt., lowest minute. Mid-pinnae ± 10 × 8 mm., ± close-set, broad-oblong, toothed on upper margin and at apex or sts all round, teeth apiculate or hair-tipped. Scape axillary, pubescent to pilose, very slender, us. < 10 cm. long, nude. Capitula (6)-8-9 mm. diam., receptacle flat or slightly convex. Phyll. in 2-3 series, ovate-orbicular to orbicular; margins purplish, scarious, ± erose. ♀ few, in 1 series, shortly pedicellate; corolla compressed-ovoid, slightly glandular; ♂ ∞, funnelform, 4-lobed. Achenes broad-ovoid, slightly turgid, plano-convex, 3-winged.
DIST.: S., St. Coastal sands, dunes, salt-marshes, beach-terraces, occ. from Cape Foulwind southwards.
