Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: The Hump, 1050 m., south of Lake Hauroko. Type: W, D. Petrie.

Shrub up to 3 m. tall; branchlets rather stout, clad in persistent lf-bases. Lvs 5-10 cm. × 2-5 mm., on petioles up to 2 mm. long articulated on broadened base, very coriac., narrow-linear, glab. and rugose above, clad in cobwebby ferruginous to pale buff tomentum below; margins revolute almost to midrib, minutely sinuate-crenate; midrib stout, prominent below, lateral veins almost at right angles, stout, dividing surface into areoles. Infl. axillary to subulate bracts, sparingly subcorymbosely branched, 3-5 cm. long; peduncles and pedicels pilose to glab. Capitula 5-15, 5 mm. long, 5 mm. diam.; florets 4-6, ray-florets 0-2, linear; phyll. narrow-ovate to linear-oblong, almost scarious, pubescent to almost glab. obtuse to subacute, inner ciliolate. Achenes c. 1 mm. long, pilose, becoming glab., striate, narrowed to base; pappus-hairs 3-4 mm. long.

DIST .: S. Montane to subalpine shrubland, sts forming thickets, Fiordland from lat. 45° southwards.

FL.? FT. 1-2.