Flora of New Zealand Series

Cardamine enysii Cheesem. ex Kirk Stud. Fl. 1899, 28.

Nasturtium enysii Cheesem. in T.N.Z.I. 43, 1911, 179.

Type locality: Mountains above the Broken River. Type: A, Cheeseman and Enys, 1880.

Depressed herb, up to c. 10 cm. tall. Stock fleshy, c. 1·5 cm. diam., with deeply descending taproot, crowned by rosette of basal lvs. Radical lvs ± 4 × 1·5 cm., oblong-spathulate, subcoriac., sharply serrate to subpinnatifid, narrow into broad flat petiole, stellate-pubescent above and below. Cauline lvs smaller, narrower, sparingly toothed. Flowering stem branched from base; infl. compact, up to 10 cm. or more across. Pedicels slender, spreading, c. 6 mm. long. Sepals 3 mm. long, oblong, acute. Petals ± spathulate, ± 5 mm. long, claws long. Siliques narrow-linear, ± 2.5-3·5 cm. long, ± 2 mm. broad. Seeds compressed, < 1 mm. long, reddish brown.

DIST.: S. Subalpine rock crevices from lat. 41° 30' to 45°, local.

FL.- FT. 11-1.