Flora of New Zealand Series

Kelleria villosa Bergg. in Minneskr. fisiogr. Sällsk. Lund 8, 1877, 18, t. 5.

Type locality: Mount Torlesse. Type: Lund, Berggren, Feb. 1874. A portion of Berggren's material is in K.

Plant forming low mats or patches up to 30 cm. or more diam. Main stems and branches prostrate and rooting, up to 4 mm. or more diam.; branchlets up to 4 cm. long, densely clad in subappressed greyish to white hairs. Lvs densely imbricate, erect or ascending, often incurved, 2.5-4 × 0·5-1 mm., narrow-subulate, slightly concavo-convex, obtuse to subacute, subcoriac., nerves distinct but hardly prominent, margins ciliate, apex strongly penicillate. Fls 3-4 per head; scales 8, distinct. Per. tube ± appressed-pilose within, funnelform, 3 mm. long; lobes 2-2.5 mm. long, oblong to ovate-oblong. Ovary ovoid, pilose at least at apex. Fr. ovoid, 1·5 mm. long.

DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine grassland and fellfield throughout.

FL.- FT. 12-3.