Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Akaroa in montosis". There is a Raoul specimen in K from P.

Stock stout, clad in brownish silky hairs. Lvs spreading to suberect, elliptic- to ovate-oblong to suborbicular, obtuse, coriac.; lamina ± 2.5-15 × 3-10 cm., obtuse, cordate to obliquely cordate at base; upper surface of young lvs with ∞ slender early-deciduous hairs mingled with hispid ones that remain till old age; lower surface densely clad in soft woolly white long-persistent tomentum; petiole 3-10 cm. long, stout, invested at base with long brownish hairs, and above with soft whitish tomentum with few to ∞ glandular hairs. Scapes simple or branched, up to 35 cm. tall, ± clad in soft tomentum mingled with glandular hairs; bracts few, linear, obtuse. Capitula 2-4 cm. diam., ligules yellow, up to 2 cm. long; phyll. acute, glandular and tomentum on back. Pappus-hairs stiff, barbellate, up to 5 mm. long; achenes c. 5 mm. long, linear.

DIST.: N., S. Lowland to montane grassland and rocky places from lat. 39° to 45°.

FL. 11-2. FT. 1-2.

Small montane forms are difficult to distinguish from the tomentose form of S. bellidioides, but us. have hardly appressed lvs, plentiful slender hairs on upper surface and more woolly tomentum below.