Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Mount St. Bathans, Otago. Type: W, at 4500', D. Petrie.

Stems laxly branched, branches and branchlets ascending. Lvs densely imbricate, 4-6 × up to 3 mm., obovate-spathulate, apiculate; lower portion appressed, membr., 3-nerved, ± golden, silky-hairy; apical portion coriac., clad in dense felted white to yellowish tomentum, tip strongly thickened and recurved. Capitula 6-7 mm. diam.; inner phyll. 4-5 mm. long, linear, margins hyaline; tips white, ± pubescent, radiate. Florets 30-50, ♀ few. Achenes up to 1 mm. long, finely pubescent; pappus-hairs c. 50, c. 4 mm. long, mainly compressed, thickened and papillate at tips, a few slender and hardly thickened at tips.

DIST.: S. Subalpine rocky places and fellfield from lat. 43° 30' to 45°, east of divide.

There is a specimen in BD collected by W. McKay "marly cliffs at Marfell's Beach, Dec. 1931" (near Seddon). The locality needs confirmation.