Flora of New Zealand Series

C. viscosa Col. in T.N.Z.I. 16, 1884, 333.

C. uniflora var. viscosa (Col.) Kirk Stud. Fl. 1899, 317. 

Treated by Cheeseman (Man. N.Z. Fl. 1925, 990) as synonym of C. fimbriata var. minor Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 131.

Type locality: "dry hills near Matamau". Type: K, W. Colenso.

Rather larger and more viscid; rosette-lvs 2.5-5 × 0·5-2 cm., obovate-spathulate, apiculate or not; upper surface very densely clad in short subhispid hairs, lower surface less densely so; margins ± ciliate but not showing a distinct white fringe of hairs. Scapes up to 30 cm. long, up to nearly 2 mm. diam., clad in short hispid hairs, becoming glab. Glomerules 1·25-2 cm. diam.; achenes 1 mm. long, clad in silky hairs, becoming glab.

DIST.: N., S. Lowland to montane grassland and open shrubland from lat. 39° to 46°.