Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Dusky Sound. Type: K, Lyall.

Stout closely branched shrub up to 6 dm. tall, main branches decumbent at base, ascending; upper branches c. 1 cm. diam., with pale bark; final branchlets c. 2.5 mm. diam., invested with remains of lf-bases. Lvs very close-set, 2-2.5 cm. × 1·5-2 mm. (not including revolute margins), narrow-linear, abruptly subacute, subcoriac., glab. except for woolly fringe on margins, broadened to submembr. base; margins revolute to stout midrib, crenulately constricted at line of revolution. Capitula c. 3 cm. diam., solitary, terminal on arrested branchlets up to 10 cm. long, and bearing ∞ lflike bracts up to 1·5 cm × 1 mm. Phyll. c. 12, c. 1 cm. long; closely subtended by bracts overtopping capitulum in bud; softly tomentose on back, with broad scarious margins. Ray-florets yellow, spreading, c. 15 mm. long, broad-oblong, clawed; achenes 1·5 mm. long, linear-oblong, glab., obscurely ribbed; pappus-hairs up to 4·5 mm. long, rather rigid, strongly barbellate.

DIST.: S. Dusky Sound: Lyall, Hector, Buchanan. Chalky Inlet: Kirk (non-flowering specimen).

The type material consists of a branch with branchlets ± 2.5 mm. diam.; lvs ± 2 cm. × 2.5 mm., If-bases persistent. Peduncle c. 10 cm., with ∞ bracts c. 1·5 cm. × 1 mm. Phyll. hyaline, margined, pilose, c. 1 cm. long, oblong, acute; ray-florets ± 1·75 mm. long. There is a packet of achenes. The Hector (1861) and Buchanan specimens are perfectly comparable.