Flora of New Zealand Series

C. fimbriata DC. var. minor Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 131.

Type locality: "Te Hawera Village". Type: K, "Grassy spots, Te Hawera Village, 1824, Colenso".

Rosette-lvs 2-5 × 0·5-1·5 cm., obovate-spathulate, sparingly clad in subhispid hairs to glab. on both surfaces; margins not woolly-fimbriate, sts with inconspicuous cottony hairs. Scape-lvs distant, small; lower oblong-ovate, c. 1 cm. long. Scapes very slender to almost filiform, not > 1 mm. diam., 10-25 cm. long. Glomerules 6-15 mm. diam. Phyll. c. 4 mm. long, lanceolate-oblong, obtuse to subacute; florets c. 4 mm. long. Achenes c. 1 mm. long, turbinate to subcompressed, densely clad in silky hairs; pappus-hairs c. 3 mm. long.

DIST.: N., S., St. Lowland to subalpine grassland, boggy ground and streamsides from lat. 38° to 43°.