Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Lake Ohou" [Ohau]. Type: W, 4827, Herb. Colonial Museum.

Hairs on upper surface of rosette-lvs long, arcuate, hardly close enough to hide epidermis, on undersurface shorter, sparser, finer and mostly regularly retrorse. Stem-lvs oblong, mostly with rounded tips; the longest and stoutest hairs on undersurface strongly hooked. Infl. us. capitate even in fr.

DIST.: S. Mountains from mid-Canterbury southwards. Scree and rock to 2100 m. altitude.

FL. 11-2. FT. 2-3.

Included by Hooker in M. traversii for which he gives the following distribution: "Middle Island: shingle beds on Tarndale, alt. 5-6000 ft., Sinclair; Wai-au valley and Discovery Peaks, alt. 5500 ft., Travers; Waimakeriri valley, alt. 2500 ft., and Mount Darwin, alt. 4500-6500 ft., Haast; Otago, lake district, Hector and Buchanan."