Flora of New Zealand Series

Perennial rosette herb, often forming loose mats. Lvs apetiolate, narrow- spathulate, mostly entire, rarely with 1-(2) pairs of shallow teeth near apex, obtuse, glabrous, 5-10 × 1-1.5 mm. Peduncle naked, glabrous except for few glandular hairs below capitulum, 3-4.5 cm long and 0.3-0.6 mm diam. at flowering, elongating to up to 7 cm at fruiting. Involucral bracts elliptic to narrow-oblong, obtuse and fimbriate to apex, glabrous except for few glandular hairs at base, 2.5-3 mm long. Rays 12-22, white, c. 3-5 mm long. Disc yellow. Achenes obovoid-oblong, compressed, eglandular, c. 1.5 mm long; pappus of bristles c. 0.3 mm long.

S.: Rock and Pillar Range (C. Otago).

Endemic.

Snowbanks and hollows above 1200 m.

FL Dec-Feb.

This distinctive alpine was treated in incertae sedis by Allan (1961), but was accepted by Mark, A. F. and Adams, N. M., New Zealand Alpine Plants (1973).