Flora of New Zealand Series

Type: W, "Rough shingly stations at the summit of the Rock and Pillar Range, opposite Middlemarch," D. Petrie.

Small glab. ± fleshy herb up to 8 cm. tall; stock short, rather stout; main roots stout. Lvs radical, dark green, coriac., on flattened petioles up to 2.5 cm. long; sheath broad, membr. Lamina crenate, 3-7-foliolate or ternately divided, 1-3 cm. diam., lateral lflts sessile, terminal long- stalked, all ± deeply 3-lobed or -partite. Scapes 1-3, 1-fld, rather stout, up to 7 cm. long, nude. Fls 1·5-2 cm. diam.; sepals broad-oblong, obtuse to subacute, ± 5 mm. long; petals 5-8, bright yellow, ± 8 mm. long, obovate-cuneate; gland 1, broadly crescent-shaped, basal. Fruiting heads subglobose, ± 6 mm. diam. Achenes turgid, obliquely obovoid, ± 1 mm. diam.; style rather stout, subulate, straight or slightly hooked.

DIST.: S. Rock and Pillar Range; Old Man Range; Garvie Range.

FL. 11-12. FT. 12-1.

Petrie describes the lvs as glaucous, Simpson and Thomson (T.R.S.N.Z. 72, 1942, 21) describe them as "invariably dark green"