Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "by the margins of rivulets in the woods". Type: K, "Dr. Lyall, 1840". The type sheet has 2 plants with immature heads; lvs radical on petioles ± 12 cm. long; hairs appressed, fuscous; laminae deeply 3-lobed and again lobed.

Rather stout erect or spreading herb up to 45 cm. long, ± clad in stiff fulvous appressed hairs; stock stout, main roots deeply descending. Lvs mostly radical on slender petioles 7-15-(20) cm. long; sheaths pilose. Lamina ± 3 × 4 cm., subreniform to ovate or deltoid-cuneate, deeply 3-partite; segs irregularly 3-7-fid. Cauline lvs opp., smaller, rather less deeply cut. Scapes or peduncles 1-2 pairs, up to 5 cm. long, axillary. Fls 8-14 mm. diam.; sepals 5, spreading; petals 5, yellow, obovate-oblong, ± size of sepals; gland 1 minute, below middle. Fruiting heads ovoid to globose, 8-10 mm. diam.; receptacle cylindric, papillose. Achenes ± compressed, margined, glab., 3-4 × 1·5-2 mm., obliquely oval in outline; style < 1 mm. long, straight or nearly so.

DIST.: C. Damp ground and streamsides.

FL. 12-1. FT. 1.