Flora of New Zealand Series

Small rosette herb clad in sparse long hairs; stock ± 1 cm. diam.; roots ∞, soft, white. Lvs radical, ± prostrate on rather stout petioles ± twice length of lamina. Lamina deltoid in outline, 1·5 cm. diam., cordate, ± deeply 3-segmented; segs 3-4-lobed, mucronate, often mottled brown at base, margins ciliate. Scape rather stout, thinly pilose, attaining 5 cm. in fruit. Fls subsessile at anthesis; sepals 5, oblong, 5 × 2 mm., pale, membr., tips fringed; petals oblong, rounded at apex; gland 1 near base; achenes ± 30 forming globose heads ± 6 mm. diam., obliquely orbicular, slightly compressed; style short, hooked.

DIST.: S. Stony runnels in subalpine scrub, the type "from the base of Mount Murrell, above Wilmott Pass, Lake Manapouri, at 1200 m. alt." Type said by Simpson to be in BD, but not there found. Status uncertain, Simpson compares it to his R. royi.