Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Top of hill above Rendezvous Harbour", Auckland Id. Type: K. J. D. Hooker.

Radicals lvs 15-45 × 10-25 cm., appressed to ground or ascending, broadly obovate to subrhomboid, narrowed to broad base, coriac., margins remotely and indistinctly crenate to subentire, hydathodes hidden by tomentum; lateral veins ridged, almost as strong as midrib. 15-30; lamina loosely tomentose below, pilose on and near veins above and with ∞ moniliform hairs on surface. Scapes stout, up to 1m. tall, tomentose above; lower lvs c. 15 cm. long, ± oblong, upper diminishing gradually to bracts. Capitula c. 6 cm. diam. including long ray-florets, c. 25 in subcorymbose racemes; ray-florets pale purple to white, disk-florets purple. Phyll. ± clad in moniliform hairs, acute. Achenes densely strigose. Pappus-hairs not thickened above.

DIST.: A., C. Coastal to montane herbfield.

FL. 12-2. FT. 1-5.

Kirk (Stud. Fl. 1899, 278) distinguishes a var. suberecta : "leaves erect or suberect, narrower; moniliform hairs more numerous."