Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Tarndale Type: K, "No. 3. above 5000'", Sinclair, Jan. 1860.

Plant rather densely to laxly branched, procumbent, branches up to c. 25 cm. long, branchlets covered by sheathing bases of lvs, c. 5 mm. diam. Lvs up to 2 × 1 cm., obovate, upper half somewhat thickened and strongly recurved, rugose, the whole clad in dense long fulvous to rufous hairs except adaxial portion of base; veins 5-10, anastomosing above. Receptacle c. 3-5 mm. diam.; phyll. linear, tips recurved, abaxial surface pilose. Achenes 2.5-3 mm. long, linear, compressed; pappus c. 9 mm. long.

DIST.: S. Subalpine to alpine screes, mainly east of divide, from lat. 41° to 41° 30'.

FL.- FT. 12-2.