Flora of New Zealand Series

C. fimbriata DC. var. robusta Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 131.

Type locality: Milford Sound. Type: K, Lyall. Specimens have also been collected in herbfield: Lake Harris Saddle, H. H. Allan; mountains above Crooked Arm, Doubtful Sound, H. Wellman.

Rosette-lvs 10-20 × 2-4 cm., petiole about = lamina, submembr., venation evident; narrow elliptic-obovate tapering to apiculate tip, to broad obovate-spathulate; glab. to ± clad in subhispid hairs, margins ciliate to nude, without distinct fringe of hairs. Lower scape-lvs oblong-spathulate to broad-obovate or ovate, up to 10 × 3 cm. Scapes stout, deeply grooved, up to 60 cm. or more tall, up to 5 mm. diam.; glab. to sparsely clad in stiff hairs. Glomerules 2.5-4 cm. or more diam.; phyll. 4 mm. long, oblong; florets 4 mm. long. Achenes c. 2 mm. long, densely to sparsely clad in subappressed hairs; pappus-hairs c. 4 mm. long.

DIST.: S., St. Coastal rock-crevices and strand from Cape Foulwind southwards, on west coast; plentiful in Fiord region, local northwards.