Craspedia incana Allan
C. incana Ckn. et Allan in Ann. Bot., Lond. 48, 1934, 47 (nomen nudum).
Type locality: Mount Torlesse. Type: W, "Mount Torlesse, 3200 ft., L. Cockayne, Feb. 1893".
Lvs and scapes very densely clad in soft snow-white floccose tomentum. Rosette-lvs c. 5-10 × 2-3 cm., obovate-spathulate, gradually narrowed to flat petiole. Lower scape-lvs similar but narrower, subacute; uppermost bractlike. Scapes c. 10-30 cm. long, c. 3 mm. diam., woolly covering ± deciduous when aged. Glomerules c. 2-3 cm. diam.; phyll. c. 5 mm. long, lanceolate to linear-oblong, subacute. Florets c. 4 mm. long, yellow. Achenes c. 4-5 mm. long, up to 1 mm. wide, obovoid, minutely papillose-pubescent; pappus-hairs c. 4 mm. long.
DIST.: S. Higher montane to alpine screes and debris slopes from lat. 42° to 45° 30', east of divide.
A large specimen from Upper Awatere Valley (BD 73774, Base of Big Hill, Molesworth Station, L. B. Moore, 30.1.1952) has the undersurface of the lf clad in soft white floccose tomentum; the upper lf-surface is lightly covered with long hairs which are shed before the lamina is fully expanded, leaving only inconspicuous glandular hairs there in the mature lf. In other respects this seems nearest to C. incana.
