Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Valley of Hopkins River. Type: K, 143 Haast, 1863.

Tufted herb with stout woody simple or sparingly branched stock; lf-sheaths densely imbricating, forming a pseudo-stem. Lamina coriac., narrow- to narrowly obovate-oblong, ± 6-12-(1·5) × 1·5-2.5-(4) cm., obtuse or subacute; upper surface glab. or nearly so; lower densely clad in appressed white satiny tomentum; both with evident midrib; margins very slightly recurved, bluntly (sts apiculately) crenate-sinuate, narrowed to petiole of diverse dimensions; sheath strongly ribbed, glab. or very nearly so, c. 5 × 1 cm. Scape ± 15-25-(40) cm. long. glab., glandular-viscid, purplish, stout; bracts linear, lamina ± 25-40 mm. long, apiculate, clad below in white satiny tomentum. Capitula 25-40 mm. diam.; phyll. ∞, linear-subulate, glab., viscid, up to c. 15 mm. long, ± hairy at tip. Ray-florets c. 15-20 mm. long, narrow; disk-florets 7-8 mm. long, funnelform, teeth narrow-triangular, c. 1 mm. long. Achenes compressed-cylindric, c. 6 mm. long, strongly grooved, with appressed silky hairs on ribs. Pappus-hairs slender, up to c. 6 mm. long, white to sordid-white, barbellate.

DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine grassland, herbfield, from c. lat. 42° 30' to 45° 30'.