Flora of New Zealand Series

Perennial shrub to 1-(2) m high. Stems densely clothed in stellate hairs and with long erect simple hairs at least above. Lvs densely clothed in fine stellate hairs, velvety to touch, lighter green below, broadly ovate, acute to acuminate, cordate to almost sagittate at base, not lobed, irregularly serrate, 4-15 cm long; petioles 2-12 cm long; stipules oblong, 5-15 mm long, often deciduous. Fls axillary and solitary or 2-4 (rarely more) in irregular axillary infls; fruiting peduncles 2-7 cm long; calyx shallowly campanulate; calyx teeth much > tube, ovate-triangular, acute to acuminate, densely clothed in stellate hairs, somewhat recurved at fruiting; petals orange-yellow, 15-20 mm long. Cells c. 10 per fr., covered in fine stellate hairs and with long stellate hairs particularly along the ridged back; dorsal apical angle shortly awned. Seeds brown, hairy, particularly on back, 2-3 mm diam.

N.: known from Auckland City only.

S. Brazil, Argentina 1981

Waste places.

FL Jan-Apr.

A. grandiflorum is an occasional garden escape. The form of stem hairs allows this sp. to be identified even from sterile material (Fig. 79).