Flora of New Zealand Series

Trineuron spathulatum Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 1, 1844, 23, t. 17.

Type locality: Auckland Is. Type: "soft earth at the top of the hills at the head of Rendezvous Harbour". Type: K, J. D. Hooker, Dec. 1840.

Stock stout, multicipital; lvs rosulate on short stems, spreading, narrowly obovate-spathulate, subacute, 1∙5-2∙5 cm. × 2-5 mm., subcoriac., gradually narrowed to flat petiole. Capitula c. 5, corymbosely crowded; peduncles elongating in fr. to ± 2-5 cm., rather stout, grooved, with lfy bracts up to and subtending corymb. Phyll. c. 10, narrowly ovate-lanceolate to ovate or oblong-ovate, c. 3·5 mm. long, almost cartilaginous, with a pair of prominent veins close to midrib. Florets 5-12, corolla of disk-florets quadrangular, of ♀ tubular from globose base. Achenes glab., 2-4 mm. long; of ♀ obovoid with 3 thickened ribs, of disk-florets tetragonous, sts abortive.

DIST.: A., C. Peaty and boggy ground, herbfield.