Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Port Cooper" (Lyttelton Harbour). Type: K, Lyall.

Stock stout, clad in dense soft brownish or white wool. Lvs spreading to suberect; lamina ovate-oblong to broad-oblong to suborbicular, coriac., obtuse, cordate to obliquely cordate at base, 7-20 × 5-15 cm.; upper surface densely clad in long silky hairs, finally nearly glab.; lower surface densely clad in long woolly white tomentum, finally nearly glab.; petiole stout, 3-10 cm. long or more, densely silky-hairy in upper portion, clad in long brownish to white hairs at base. Scapes us. branched, up to 45 cm. long, clad in long silky hairs mingled with ∞ glandular ones; bracts linear-oblong. Capitula 2-4 cm. diam., ligules yellow, up to 3 cm. long; phyll. acute, tomentose and glandular on back. Pappus-hairs rather stiff, up to 5 mm. long; achenes linear, 5-8 mm. long.

DIST.: S. Rocky places and grassland on Port Hills, Christchurch.

FL. 1-3.