Flora of New Zealand Series

D. dichotoma Banks et Sol. ex Smith in Rees Cyclop. 12, 1809.

D. intermedia R. Cunn. ex A. Cunn. in Ann. nat. Hist. 4, 1840, 110 non Hayne in Schrad. J. Bot. (1800) 1, 1800, 37.

D. cunninghamii Walp. Repert. 1, 1842, 229.

D. flagellifera Col. in T.N.Z.I. 23, 1891, 384.

Type locality: Southport, Tasmania, Labillardière.

Stock short. Lvs radical, pubescent, erect or spreading; stipules membr., often trifid, up to 7·5 mm. long; petiole glab., up to 35 cm. long; lamina 2- to 4-fid or more; segs linear, up to 15 cm. × 2 mm. with stalked glandular marginal hairs. Peduncles few, erect, glab., up to 50 cm. or more long; sparingly corymbosely branched above; pedicels up to 15 mm. long; fls us. ∞.Sepals connate at base, obovate to elliptic, up to 6 mm. long, glandular; petals white, obovate, up to 10 mm. long. Style branches 3, several times dichotomously branched, segs dilated. Capsule subglobose, c. 2 mm. long.

DIST.: N., S., St., Ch. Lowland to montane wet and boggy ground throughout.

FL.- FT. 11-2.