Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Mount Cook, alt. 2700-4000 ft." Type: K, Haast.

Stock and bases of petioles clad in long pale buff hairs. Lf-laminae 3-15 × 2-6 cm., oblong to broad-oblong or suborbicular, obtuse, cordate to truncate at base, submembr., clad when young on both surfaces in dense white subappressed tomentum, sts becoming nearly glab. above when mature. Petioles 3-15 cm. long, clad in dense soft white tomentum, finally nearly, glab. Scapes up to 35 cm. long, us. slenderly branched above, clad in dense tomentum of soft whitish hairs mingled with glandular ones, becoming nearly glab. with age; lower bracts spathulate, floral bracts linear. Capitula 2-4 cm. diam., ligules yellow, up to 2 cm. long; phyll. tomentose on back, linear, obtuse. Pappus-hairs up to 5 mm. long, barbellate; achenes c. 4 mm. long, linear.

DIST.: S. Lowland to subalpine grassland from lat. 42° southwards.

FL. 12-2. FT. 1-2.