Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Otago lake district, alpine, Hector and Buchanan". Type: K, no. 12 Hector and Buchanan. There are 6 rosettes, 3 with flowering scapes.

Rather stout low-growing branching subshrub forming small to large patches; branchlets ascending to erect, invested in lower parts by If-remains, in upper part by If-rosettes with a grey-green appearance. Lamina ± (3)-4-8 cm. × 10-15-(25) mm., broadly elliptic-oblong to obovate-spathulate, subcoriac. to coriac.; upper surface glab., us. longitudinally furrowed, pale green; lower surface clad in closely appressed ± satiny tomentum, midrib tomentose but ± evident; apex obtuse to subacute; margins slightly recurved, very minutely distantly denticulate, cuneately narrowed to winged petiole c. 5 mm. long. Sheath delicate, pale yellowish green, ± 2-3 cm. × 5 mm.; veins evident. Scape c. 5-15 cm. long, densely tomentose to almost glab., rather stout to slender; bracts several to ∞, linear-subulate, acute to subacute, up to c. 2 cm. long or more. Capitula 25-40 mm. diam.; phyll. linearlanceolate, membr., softly hairy without, up to c. 12 mm. long. Rayflorets 15-20 mm. long; limb narrow-oblong to narrow obovate-oblong, 3-5 toothed. Disk-florets funnelform, shortly 5-toothed, 6-8 mm. long. Achenes narrow-cylindric, glab., 3-4 mm. long. Pappus-hairs up to 5-6 mm. long, very finely barbellate.

DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine grassland, herbfield, fellfield and rocky places from c. lat. 41° southwards.