Flora of New Zealand Series

Pozoa exigua Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 87.

Azorella exigua Kirk Stud. Fl. 1899, 191.

Type locality: "Otago, lake district, alpine". Type: K, Hector and Buchanan, 1407, 1863.

Minute plant with stout, very sparingly branched to unbranched rhizomes up to c. 2 cm. long, forming patches up to c. 5 cm. diam. Lvs crowded, on rather stout petioles up to ± 1 cm. long. Lamina 2-4-(5) mm. diam., suborbicular to broad-ovate, truncate to subcordate at base, coriac., entire to very obscurely 3-5-lobed or crenulate; margins slightly recurved. Stipules obsolescent. Umbels on rather stout peduncles < 1 cm. long; involucral bracts linear-oblong. Fls minute, 3-8 per umbel; calyx-teeth minute, unequal, acute. Fr. subtetragonous, 2-2.5 mm. long; mericarps obscurely 5-ribbed, rounded on dorsal margin.

DIST.: S. Subalpine herbfield from lat. 44º 30' to 45º.