Flora of New Zealand Series

Small sparsely hairy to glabrate rosette herb with slender radical lvs on petioles ± 16 mm.; sheath ± 14 × 3 mm., membr. Lamina c. 9 × 10 mm., broad obovate-cuneate, 3-lobed to middle, brown-flecked. Scape ± 5 cm. long, rather stout, hairs long. Sepals 5, fugaceous, c. 3 × 2 mm., broad-ovate, sparsely hairy; petals us. 5, ovate to obovate or spathulate, ± 5 × 2 mm., pale yellow; gland 1 basal. Fruiting heads small; achenes glab., somewhat turgid; style short, a little recurved.

DIST.: S. In wet ground at 1200 m. on Rock and Pillar Range, L. Cockayne. Status uncertain.