Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Mount Alta, 6000'". Type: K, Hector and Buchanan.

Stock rather stout, multicipital, emitting short stolons densely clad in imbricate lvs, branches up to 3 cm. long; plant forming mosslike patches. Lvs close-set along branches, 6-10 × 1-2 mm., coriac., erect to patent, curved, narrowly linear to linear-oblong to subulate-oblong, subacute, ciliolate near sheathing base; midrib prominent. Capitula solitary, c. 3 mm. diam., subsessile, invested by lvs; phyll. up to 3 mm. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, scarious, nerves us. prominent. Florets 15-20; ♀ with slender corolla-tube, 4-lobed; disk-florets subfunnelform, us. 5-lobed. Achenes c. 1-2 mm. long, linear-clavate, distinctly to obscurely 4-ribbed, pubescent to glab.

DIST.: S. Subalpine boggy ground and herbfield, mountains of Otago.