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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Var. fiordensis

Var. fiordensis M. B. Ashwin var. nov. 

Type locality: Takahe Valley, Lake Te Anau. Type: W, 6128, W.R.B. Oliver.

Cushions us. tightly compacted and rather rigid, 2-4 cm. high; branchlets 4-5 mm. diam. including lvs. Lvs more stiffly imbricate, us. yellowish and glossy on back when old, 2.5-4 × 1·5-2 mm., narrow-ovate to ovate-spathulate, subacute to acute, ciliate ± to base but cilia often few and appressed near tip except for prominent apical tuft. Calyx-lobes hairy for most of length on outer surface as well as margins.

DIST.: S. Fiordland mountains.

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