Flora of New Zealand Series

D. villosa var. multiflora Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 1906, 616.

Type locality: Mount Arthur Plateau. Type: A, T. F. Cheeseman.

Plant forming low lax mats up to 30 cm. or more diam.; stems and branches prostrate, robust, up to 5 mm. or more diam.; branchlets densely clad in ascending white to greyish hairs, prostrate to ascending, up to 6 cm. long. Lvs erect, densely imbricate, 4-7 × 0·5-1 mm., linear-lanceolate to narrow oblong-lanceolate, often slightly curved, obtuse, coriac., nerves us. conspicuous, margins ciliate, apex pencillate. Fls 5-15 per head; scales 8, distinct. Per. tube villous, 2-3 mm. long; lobes 1·5-2 mm. long, ovate-oblong, sts villous within. Ovary ovoid, villous at apex. Fr. ovoid, 1·5-2 × 1 mm.

DIST.: S. Montane and subalpine grassland, herbfield and fellfield to lat. 43°.

FL.- FT. 12-3.