Flora of New Zealand Series

Up to 3 dm. tall, stock stout, woody; lvs radical and cauline, or the latter reduced to bracts; terminal lflt ± 2-5 × 1·5-6 cm., orbicular to oblong-cordate, doubly crenate, sparsely to densely pilose, veins impressed above, prominent below; lateral lflts in few to 15 pairs, uppermost up to 1·5 cm. long, serrate-crenate, lower much smaller. Scapes up to 3 dm. long, sparingly to much branched, rather stout, villous; cauline lvs in several pairs, up to 3 cm. long, oblong, deeply serrate, or reduced to bracts. Infl. of small panicles, fls sts clustered and surrounded by lflike bracts in young state; peduncles and pedicels elongating in fr., bracteate. Fls c. 1 cm. diam.; calyx pubescent to pilose, lobes c. 5 mm. long, ovate; bractlets small, sts bifurcate; petals 4-5 mm. long, white, ovate to obovate, sts ciliate-margined on claw. Receptacle villous; achenes ∞, flattened, stipitate, c. 1·5 mm. long, villous to ciliate on margins only; styles c. 2.5 mm. long, villous towards achene, tip recurved.

DIST.: N., S. Montane to subalpine grassland and herbfield from lat. 38° southwards.

FL. 12-2. FT. 2-4. Also Chile to Fuegia.