Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Mount Fyffe, Seaward Kaikoura Range. Type: W, 2142, L. Cockayne.

Stout subshrub; stems woody, ± 10 cm. diam.; branches stout, us. rather close-set, erect or ascending, clad in lf-remains; living Ivs rosulate at tips of branchlets. Lamina coriac., ± 4-8-(10) cm. × 10-15 mm.; narrowly obovate-spathulate to obovate-oblong, subacute to obtuse, us. minutely apiculate; upper surface glab., veins ± distinct; lower surface clad in dense appressed white satiny tomentum, midrib dark, prominent; margins sinuate, distantly furnished with glandular denticles, narrowed cuneately to petiole then widening to nearly glab. sheath c. 10 mm. long. Scape rather slender to rather stout, ± 15-20 cm. long, rather densely clad in viscid glandular hairs; bracts us. many; lower up to 3 cm. long, lflike, ± lanceolate, apiculate; upper linear-oblong. Capitula 2-3-(4) cm. diam.; phyll. ∞, lower bractlike, ± 12 mm. long, narrowlanceolate, acuminate, densely clad in glandular hairs; upper linear-subulate. Ray-florets ± 15 mm. long, limb narrow-oblong; disk-florets tubular, c. 5-6 mm. long. Achenes narrow-cylindric, ± compressed. 1-1·5 mm. long; ribs very densely clad in short silky hairs. Pappus-hairs up to 6 mm. long, sordid-white, hardly barbellate.

DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine rock-crevices, Marlborough.

At K is a good piece of the original gathering, with 3 Capitula. Martin (T.R.S.N.Z. 65, 1935, 177) has observed this sp. on "Mounts B. J., Bounds, Pinnacle, Schiza, Camden, Malvern, Gladstone, Tapuaenuku, Kaitarau, Whakari, Fyffe, and Kahutara Saddle where it is abundant."