Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Kelly's Hill, Otira River at 900 m. Type: Lund, Berggren. There is a Berggren specimen in W, of February 1874.

Stock stout, multicipital, stems short. Lvs rosulate, 3-7 cm. × 1-2 mm. (sts dwarfed to 1 cm. long), obtuse, somewhat coriac., ± rufous-pilose on margins near sheathing bases. Peduncles slender, 1-10 cm. long in fr., bracts lflike. Capitula solitary, paired, or few together, c. 5 mm. diam. Phyll. 7-14, narrow-oblong-obovate, subacute, 4-5 mm. long; pair of lateral nerves distant from midrib. Florets 20-25, not strongly dimorphic; achenes c. 1·5 mm. long, indistinctly ± 4-ribbed or -angled.

DIST.: S., St. Montane to subalpine bog and herbfield throughout, mainly west of divide, descending to sealevel in southern part of range.