Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Otago, Mount Brewster, alt. 5-6000 ft." Type: K, 53 Hector and Buchanan.

Stout much-branched subshrub forming low patches up to ± 1 m. diam.; stems woody, ± 5 mm. diam.; branches clad in If-remains, branchlets ± close-set bearing If-rosettes. Lamina linear- to spathulate-oblong or linear-obovate, coriac., (10)-15-20-(25) × (3)-5-7-(10) mm.; upper surface densely clad in appressed ± scurfy white tomentum, sts separating as a pellicle; lower surface clad in appressed whitish satiny tomentum; apex obtuse to subacute, often apiculate; margins entire or nearly so, slightly recurved, gradually narrowed nearly to base, then widening into thinly coriac., glab. sheath c. 5 mm. long. Scape rather stout, 4-8-10 cm. long, densely clad in floccose hairs. Bracts ∞, linear, up to 1cm. long, tomentose. Capitula 20-25-(30) mm. diam.; phyll. linear-subulate, obtuse to subacute, up to c. 12 mm. long, clad in spreading hairs, especially marginally. Ray-florets c. 15 mm. long; limb elliptic-oblong, 3-toothed. Disk-florets 8-9 mm. long, narrow-funnelform; teeth becoming reflexed, narrow-triangular. Achenes 2.5-3 mm. long, cylindric; hairs few to many on ribs, ascending. Pappus-hairs up to 6 mm. long, white, minutely barbellate.

DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine grassland, herbfield and rocky places from c. lat. 43° southwards.

The type is one rosette in fl., in good order, with the note "forms carpets". There is also a packet with one achene and a drawing.