Flora of New Zealand Series

C. pulchella Kirk Stud. Fl. 1899, 328.

"Stems slender, rather wiry, 1in. -10 in. long or more, hairy. Leaves 1/3 in.-21/2 in. long, glabrate or pilose, membranous, linear-oblong, obovate, obtuse, pinnatifid or pinnate at the base; segments in 6-9 pairs, narrow, deeply 2-4-toothed at the tips; teeth sometimes piliferous; petiole long, slender. Heads unisexual; peduncles axillary, usually shorter than the leaves. Female: 1/6 in. -1/2 in. in diameter; involucre hemispherical; involucral bracts in 3 rows, outer orbicular-ovate with erose purple or green margins, glabrate or pubescent, inner linear-oblong; corolla eglandular, ovoid-conical, about one-third as long as the ovary; mouth denticulate; achene stipitate, slightly curved, turgid, plano-convex. Male: rather smaller; corolla funnel-shaped, 5-lobed."

DIST.: "South Island: in boggy ground near Lincoln, Canterbury. Invercargill: mouth of the Oreti River; the Bluff Hill. Stewart Island: rare and local, T.K." All quoted from Kirk, loc. cit.

Cockayne (Rep. Bot. Surv. St. Id 1909, 84) says under C. pulchella Kirk : "Very common, Dog and Centre Islands; rare, Stewart Island. I am not absolutely sure of my identification, but the plant in question is constant over a considerable area, and seems a well-marked species."