Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Upper Clinton Valley, on old moraine. Type: W, 3292, L. Cockayne.

Laminae of somewhat diverse forms in different plants--obovate-oblong to lanceolate-oblong to elliptic, obtuse to subacute, apiculate, 2-4 × 1-1·5 cm. Petiole ± 2 cm. long. Scape very slender, erect, 12-15-(20) cm. long; bracts us. ∞.

DIST.: S. Common in Fiordland.

BD 67439, "Mary Peaks, Caswell Sd. area. Alpine herbfield. A. L. Poole, 4, 3, 49" consists of 2 plants: lamina thin, narrow-obovate, apiculate, rather remotely sharply toothed, 10-15 × 3·5 mm., on petiole c. 10 mm. long. Scapes almost filiform, 6-10 cm. long; capitula c. 2 cm. diam.

Colenso (T.N.Z.I. 22, 1890, 470) described his C. membranacea from plants collected by H. Hill "Open lands at Taupo; 1889". The description includes: "Plant small, erect, 4 in.-5 in. high. Rootstock vertical, thickish, also horizontal long and slender, sending out long narrow leafy stolons. Leaves sub-rosulate, 8-10, close, spreading, orbicular-elliptic and broadly oblong, 3/4 in.-1 in. long, membranous, green on both sides, glabrous, minutely glandular on upper surface and margins with depressed circular glands or dots, but not puberulent, finely reticulated, margins slightly revolute and sharply serrate, teeth rather long, curved; petiole flattish, 3-4 lines long . . . Involucral scales numerous in 4 rows, linear, the inner row longest, 3 lines long, dark-green, 1-nerved, glossy within the apical portion, and tips largely ciliate. Florets very numerous: of ray, 20 or more . . . of disk, 32 . . . Achene linear somewhat quadrangular, striate, sub-compressed, pubescent on striae, base finely beaked." I have not seen specimens so named by Colenso. Cheeseman (Man. N.Z. Fl. 1925. 958) dismisses the name as an absolute synonym of C. glandulosa.