Flora of New Zealand Series

Taproot stout, simple to paucicipital. Lvs 5-10 cm. long, including petiole, glab., glaucous, somewhat fleshy, deeply pinnatifid, lineolate when dry. Terminal lobe 5-15 × 4-15 mm., closely to rather distantly dentate-apiculate; lateral lobes close-set, densely dentate-apiculate, diminishing downwards regularly from c. 5 mm. long to minute teeth, cut to widened axis; petiole widening to broad base. Scapes 2-10 cm. long, at first clad in cottony tomentum mingled with glandular hairs, becoming nearly glab.; bracts 1-2, linear, near capitulum. Capitula up to 3 cm. long, 3-4 cm. diam. Florets c. 30. Bracteoles subulate to linear; outer phyll. narrow-ovate, densely white-tomentose, ± furnished with glandular hairs; inner phyll. up to 12 mm. long, narrow-ovate, subattenuate; tip glab., dark, fimbrillate. Fertile achenes c. 2 mm. long, distinctly but not strongly ribbed. Pappus-hairs c. 7 mm. long, finely barbellate.

DIST.: S. Described from specimens collected on Brothers Is, Cook Strait. Similar but less glaucous, less fleshy forms have been collected in various places in montane tussock-grassland and rocky places from the Ben Ohau Range to the Shotover River.