Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Tarndale. Type: K, Sinclair, Jan. 1861.

Small low-growing subshrub with stems branching from near base; branches short, ascending to spreading, clad in lf-remains; living lvs rosulate at tips of branchlets. Lamina bright green, glab. on both surfaces, ± 5-7 cm. × 15 mm., obovate- to elliptic-spathulate, rather thin; lower surface with conspicuous midrib; apex obtuse to subacute, apiculate; margins entire to obscurely denticulate, gradually narrowed to short petiole, then expanded into striate, glab., thin sheath ± 25 × 6 mm. Scape slender, almost glab., ± 15 cm. long; bracts linear-subulate, 8-9 mm. long, ± ciliolate. Capitula 3-4 cm. diam.; phyll. linear-subulate, spreading, ± ciliolate at apex. Ray-florets ∞, linear, c. 8-12 mm. long, obtuse. Disk-florets narrow-funnelform, c. 5-6 mm. long. Achenes silky-hairy on ribs. Pappus-hairs up to 6 mm. long, slender, barbellate.

DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine grassland. herbfield: Mount Schiza, Raglan Range, Mount Bounds, St. Arnaud Range, Mounts Fishtail, Richmond, Z, Tarndale.

The Kew specimen is pasted down, only the upper surface of lamina visible, c. 4·5 × 1cm. on petiole c. 1·5 cm. No Dun Mountain specimen was found by me. Martin (loc. cit. 73) remarks: "In the light of my present knowledge of this species, it seems probable that there are not fewer than two distinct jordanons, one east and the other west of the Wairau River, but further research is necessary to establish this as a fact."