Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: shores of Lake Ohau. Type: K, No. 745, J. Haast, 1862.

Slender glabrate herb, up to 15 cm. tall, often pilose on petioles and scapes; stock short, slender. Lvs all radical on petioles 2.5-12.5 cm. long, with broad membr. sheaths. Lamina narrow-oblong in outline, (a) pinnate with 2-6 pairs of rounded 3-4-lobed sessile or stalked Iflts 6-9 mm. long; segs oblong-cuneate, abruptly acute or subacute, or (b) biternately divided; Iflts stalked, cuneate, deeply lobed, 2-3 cm. long. Scapes us. 1-4, nude, slender, ± pilose, up to 15 cm. long, 1-fld. Fls ± 2 cm. diam.; sepals 5, narrow-oblong, silky to glabrate, ± 5 mm. long; petals 8-10, ± 1 cm. long, narrow-obovate to cuneate, rounded to minutely retuse at apex, golden yellow; gland 1, small, basal. Achenes c. 1·5 mm. long, subturgid; style slightly hooked.

DIST.: S., St. Higher montane to subalpine grassland and herbfield from 43° southwards, descending to lowlands in St.