Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Akaroa "in montosis et umbraculis". Type: P, Raoul.

Liane with softly wooded stems up to 5 m. long (occ. creeping on forest floor or forming tangled masses), branches slender, flexuous, striate, pubescent; branchlets pubescent, often drooping. Lvs rather distant on slender petioles up to 2cm. long or more; lamina 1·5-3×1·5-3 cm., orbicular to broad ovate-orbicular in outline, membr., coarsely and acutely dentate, sparsely scaberulous to glab. on both surfaces. Capitula < 1 cm. diam. in axillary and terminal small open panicles, pedicels densely pubescent; phyll. 6-8, linear-oblong, subacute, pubescent on back, margins scarious. Ray-florets not > 10, with yellow spreading ligules c. 6 mm. long; disk-florets up to 10. Achenes compressed, striate, 1-1×5 mm. long, hispidulous, becoming nearly glab.; pappus-hairs up to 4 mm. long, rather rigid, very finely barbellate.

DIST.: S. Forest margins, lowland to lower montane, local, N.W. Nelson, extending to lat. 46° east of divide.

FL. 1-4. FT. 2-5.