Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Mount Herbert. Type: W, Haast.

Stems stiff to almost rigid, creeping, rooting, branched, up to ± 15 cm. long, pubescent to silky; long lfy runners are often developed and the plant forms broad patches. Lvs alt. or fascicled, on ± silky petioles up to 10 mm. long, with sheathing bases. Lamina narrow-oblong to narrow-obovate or elliptic, membr., (1)-2-3-5 × 1-1·5 cm., pinnate to pinnatisect, ± densely hairy. Pinnae c. 12 pairs; upper us. entire, clad in appressed hairs, ± oblanceolate, c. 5 × 0·5-1·75 mm., narrowed to very short flat petiolules; mid-pinnae broader, bluntly toothed on upper margins; lowest much smaller, ± deeply incised. Costa flat, clad in ascending to patent hairs. Scape slender to almost filiform, 2-5 cm. long, nude, clad in sparse ascending to patent hairs. Capitula (4)-5-8-(9) mm. diam.; receptacle broad, convex. Phyll. in 2-3 series, broad-oblong, obtuse, 2-2.5 mm. long, scarious; tips purple, fringed to erose. ♀ in 3-4 series; corolla ovoid-compressed, much contracted at 4-toothed apex. ♂ ∞, funnelform; lobes 4, ovate-triangular, acute. Achenes compressed-ovoid, c. 2 × 1 mm., plano-convex, very obscurely angled, glab.

DIST.: S. Lowland to lower montane grassland and rocky places on Banks Peninsula, Port Hills (Christchurch) and Canterbury Plains.