Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Gertrude Saddle. Type: BD 23982, L. B. Moore, 27.12.39.

Lvs with fulvid to buff tomentum; upper surface less densely clad, becoming glab. or nearly so; stem-lvs c. 3 cm. × 5-10 mm., narrow- to broad-obovate, bases glab. or nearly so; subfloral lvs with looser tomentum. Capitula seldom > 2 cm. diam., receptacle c. 4-5 mm. diam. Phyll. c. 1 cm. long, lanceolate-oblong, with broad scarious margins. Achenes c. 2 mm. long, distinctly ribbed, hardly compressed. Pappus c. 9 mm. long.

DIST.: S. Mountains near Lakes Wanaka to Manapouri and westwards.

H. montana Buchan. in T.N.Z.I. 19, 1887, 215, from Mount Alta Range, is described as having the phyll. "reduced to fine black lines".