Flora of New Zealand Series

M. cinerascens Petrie in T.N.Z.I. 50, 1918, 207.

Type: W, 2585 left-hand specimen, "limestone shingle-slip, Trelissick Basin, 730 m. alt. L. Cockayne, 4 Feb. 1902".

Hairs on upper surface of rosette-lvs smoothly appressed, ± over-lapping, of varying lengths but none long, on undersurface all short, not retrorse. Stem-lvs oblong, narrowing to subacute tip; hairs on upper surface appressed, short, close together, on undersurface similar but shorter, interspersed with longer hooked hairs on uppermost lvs. Infl. elongating in fr., occ. with a lfy bract above the lowest bifurcation.

DIST.: S. Known only from a few specimens from the type locality, Castle Hill Basin, Canterbury.

Petrie included under this name specimens (e.g., W 2585 right-hand specimen and W 2597B) showing a ± elongate infl. and subacute stem-lvs in combination with the indumentum characteristic of  var. cantabrica. Some later specimens (e.g., BD 19106, 48110, 56722, all from the same Broken River limestone area) also show these characters in combination.