Flora of New Zealand Series

Type: W, Kurow, Petrie.

Glab. to sparsely hairy herb up to 10 cm. tall, us. less, stock rather stout, branched above. Lvs radical, on slender petioles up to c. 5 cm. long, ± deeply trilobed, sts almost trifoliolate, sts entire, rarely with a further small pair of pinnules. Infl. us. branched; fls few, on slender spreading peduncles up to 2 cm. long; sepals oblong, c. 2 cm. long, margins hyaline; petals white, c. (5)-7-10 mm. long, broad-ovate, claw narrow, c. 2 mm. long. Siliques up to 2.5 cm. long, narrow, spreading; style very slender. Seeds c. 30.

DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine debris and rocky places from lat. 43° to 45° 30', east of divide.