Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Hooker merely gives "Northern Island". Type: K, Colenso 209.

Patches up to c. 3 dm. diam. Lvs on slender petioles up to c. 4 cm. long ± clad in retrorse hairs. Lamina 3-5-7-lobed almost to base, pilose to hispid, ± 10-15 × 15-25 mm.; basal sinus broad, deep; lobes narrowly obovate-cuneate, acutely deeply toothed, sinuses narrow. Umbels 15-20-(40)-fld, forming beads ± 5mm. diam., on slender to rather stout peduncles up to ± 5 cm. long; peduncle occ. prolonged and bearing a further small head, Fls sessile, glab., us. reddish brown. Fruiting heads ± 1-2 mm. diam., occ. larger. Mericarps somewhat turgid, pale brown, us. glab., acute on dorsal edge; one obtuse inconspicuous rib on each face.

DIST.: N., S. Lowland to lower montane open places from lat. 35° southwards.

FL. 11-2. FT. 1-3.

A somewhat polymorphic sp., but some of the diversity is probably dur to habitat conditions. Cockayne and Allan (Ann. Bot., Lond. 48, 1934, 35) record H. dissecta × elongata.