Flora of New Zealand Series

S. lyallii Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 160 pro parte.

S. lyallii var. scorzoneroides (Hook. f.) Kirk Stud. Fl. 1899, 340.

Type locality: Dusky Sound. Type: K, Lyall.

Plant up to 5 dm. tall; stock stout, invested with remains of lf-bases. Stems stout, simple, lfy, clad above in soft slender hairs mingled with glandular ones, terminated by broad corymb. Lvs entire or with a few obscure teeth, rather fleshy, glandular-pubescent, basal up to 20 × 2 cm., linear- to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed to villous sheathing bases; cauline smaller, up to 2 cm. wide, linear- to ovate lanceolate, often distinctly toothed, sessile, subamplexicaul; lower bracts lflike, upper linear-oblong. Capitula ∞ on peduncles with soft slender hairs mingled with glandular ones; c. 4-6 cm. diam. with white ligules up to 3 cm. long. Phyll. densely glandular on back, linear-lanceolate, acute. Achenes linear, 2-4 mm. long, ribbed, pubescent-pilose; pappus-hairs up to 5 mm. long, sordid-white, stiff, barbellate.

DIST.: S., St. Montane to subalpine herbfield and damp grassland throughout, mainly west of divide, descending to lowland in southern part of range.

FL. 12-1.