Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Dusky Sound? Type: P?

Stout perennial ± 25-50-(60) cm. tall. Stems 1 to several arising from a stout woody often multicipital stock, simple, terete, stout, decumbent at base, striate, margined. Basal lvs us. ∞, densely rosulate, spreading; lamina 15-20-(40) × 8-15-(20) mm., broadly obovate-spathulate, coriac., 3-5-nerved, rounded or subacute, gradually narrowed into broad flat petiole 5-10 mm. long. Cauline lvs in 2-6 distant pairs, sessile or sts with very short petioles; lamina broad-ovate to oblong, ± 20 × 15 mm., 3-5-(7)-nerved, obtuse to subacute, often cordate at base. Infl. a broad, up to 10-fld, umbelliform, terminal, involucrate cyme; bracts broad, us. whorled. Pedicels 2*5-5 cm. long, slender to rather stout. Calyx c. 15 mm. long, cut 3/4 way into narrow-subulate acute to acuminate lobes. Corolla white, c. 25 mm. long, cut at least 1/2 way into broad-oblong to obovate, rounded, subacute to obtuse lobes.

DIST.: S., St. Montane to subalpine grassland and fellfield, descending almost to sealevel in southern part of range, west of divide.

Cheeseman (Man. N.Z. Fl. 1925, 729) remarks: "I am indebted to Mr. Brown for tracings of Forster's two specimens, which appear to be the only ones extant in England, and also of three of Lyall's. Forster's are far from good; but Lyall's correspond so closely with a plant collected on the coast ranges near Westport by Townson that I can hardly doubt their being identical."