Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "hills around Preseverance Harbour" Campbell Id. Type: ?

Radical lvs ± 15-35 × 4·5-6·5 cm., obovate-oblong, abruptly acute to acuminate, narrowed to sheathing base, coriac., completely clad in dense silvery tomentum; margins rather closely crenulate to subentire, hydathodes evident, sheaths densely clad in long floccose hairs; ribs c. 10-15, inconspicuous. Scapes up to 60 cm. long, grooved, tomentose; lower lvs narrow-oblong, upper linear; racemes with c. 10-20 capitula, each c. 2 cm. diam. Phyll. linear-lanceolate, acuminate, with scattered hairs. Ray-florets short, inconspicuous; disk-florets purple; achenes with silky to substrigose hairs. Pappus-hairs hardly or not at all thickened above.

DIST.: A., C., M. Montane herbfield.

FL. 12-2. FT. 1-5.

Kirk (T.N.Z.I. 23, 1891, 435, t. 40) redescribed the sp. under the name P. Hookerianum Buchan, and mentions his manuscript name of P. gilliesianum. Kirk and Cheeseman consider Buchanan's figure to be drawn from P. criniferum.