Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Base of Mount Ida at 500 m. altitude". Type: BD 75722, Simpson and Thomson.

Hairs all short, stiff, sparse, and except when old closely appressed. Lateral branches often sparse, openly branched, with internodes > bracts. Calyx 4-6 mm. long in fr.; hairs few, confined to margins and vertical strips, all short, stiff and coarse. Corolla white, c. 3 mm. diam. Nutlets c. 1·5 × 1 mm.

DIST.: S. Castle Hill, Canterbury; Kurow; Central Otago; Harris Mts; Mid Dome. Open places in grassland.

The most distinct of the vars but intermediates between it and other vars occur.