Flora of New Zealand Series

Type: W, 1899, T. Kirk, Jan. 17, 1890.

Annual or biennial herb up to 60 cm. tall; main stem erect, fistular, up to 15 mm. diam.; branches fistular, spreading, grooved. Lvs sub-succulent, glab. above, cobwebby below, 5-14 × 2.5-7·5 cm.; basal lvs petiolate; upper sessile by broad amplexicaul auricled bases, deeply and irregularly pinnatifid, segs up to 5 × 2 cm., toothed or lobed; uppermost with narrower segs. Capitula ∞, up to 15 mm. diam., on slender bracteolate pedicels in corymbs; phyll. c. 20, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 2-ribbed, margins scarious. Florets all perfect, funnelform. Achenes 2 mm. long, linear-oblong, grooved, minutely puberulous becoming nearly glab.; pappus-hairs very slender, finely barbellate, up to 5·5 mm. long.

DIST.: Known only from type locality, Antipodes Id, where abundant.

FL. 12-2.

In his original description Kirk says "glabrous except the peduncles and young leaves, mealy-tomentose beneath". In the type specimen the indumentum is distinctly cobwebby, not mealy.