Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Head of Clarence River. Type: BD 58285, R. Mason.

Stems very stout, up to ± 35 cm. long and 5 mm. diam. Lamina viscid, obovate-oblong, ± 3-4 × 1-1·5 cm., minutely apiculate, remotely denticulate; petiole flat, ± 5 mm. long, abruptly expanded into sheath. Scape ± 10 cm. long, glandular-pubescent; bracts linear-spathulate, apiculate, lower up to 2 cm. long. Capitula ± 25 mm. diam.; phyll. to 10-12 mm. long, linear-oblong, upper 2/3 floccose, lower 1/3 pale, indurated, with marginal hairs. Achenes ± 3 mm. long, compressed-obovoid; ribs fine, clad in soft spreading hairs.

DIST.: S. St. Arnaud Range, Spenser Range, Travers Valley, Lake Tennyson, Boulder Lake, Mount Percival, Clyde River, Mount Aspiring.

Connected with other vars by intermediate forms but apparently constant in several populations.