Flora of New Zealand Series

Tufted perennial; rhizome 0; rosettes to 5 cm tall. Lamina broad-ovate to deltoid, 9-15 mm diam., ternatifid up to c. 1/2 way, crenately lobed or bluntly toothed, hairy, coriaceous. Fls solitary, 15-20 mm diam.; scapes 2-4 cm long, hairy, bearing 1-2 narrow bracts. Sepals spreading, sparsely hairy. Petals 5-(7), yellow, brownish beneath, narrow-obovate; nectary single, c. 2 mm from petal base, covered by a narrow oblong scale. Receptacle sparsely hairy. Achenes (4)-6-(10), weakly flattened, glabrous; body ellipsoid, 2-2.5 mm long; beak straight, 2-2.5 mm long.

St.: Tin Range, Deceit Peaks.

Endemic.

Windswept rocky subalpine grassland and herbfield.