Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "snow holes on Mount Brewster, and Hopkins river, amongst grass, alt. 5-6000 feet". Type: K, Mount Brewster, Haast. Two plants, both in fl. There are other specimens from different sources on the sheet.

Rather stout silky hairy pale green herb up to 25 cm. tall; stock stout, ascending or creeping and forming matted patches. Lvs all radical on stout petioles 2.5-12 cm. or more long; sheaths very broad, membr. Lamina broad-ovate to ovate-cordate in outline, membr., 1-4 cm. diam.; 3-pinnatisect, hairs extending as fringe to margins; final segs linear to narrow-oblong, ± acute. Scape rather stout, exceeding lvs, 1-(2)-fld, nude, or with entire to laciniate bracts. Fls 2.5-4 cm. diam.; sepals ovate-oblong, membr., 1-1·5 cm. long; petals 5-10, broadly obovate-cuneate, rounded to emarginate at tips, ± 1·5 × 1cm., golden yellow; glands mostly 3, near base. Fruiting heads globose to ovoid, ± 1 cm. diam.; receptacle ± 1 cm. long. Achenes glab., turgid, keeled, ± 2-3 mm. long, obliquely obovoid; style stout, subulate.

DIST.: S. Higher montane to subalpine grassland, fellfield and herbfield from lat. 43°-45°.

FL. 12-2. FT. 1-3.