Flora of New Zealand Series

Eurybiopsis australis Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 125.

Type locality: French Pass. Type: P?

Small bushy subshrub up to 30 cm. tall, ± hispid and glandular. Lvs ∞, up to 1·5 cm. long, obovate- to spathulate-cuneate, rather deeply 5-3-toothed at tip, narrowed to flat petiole, ± glandular-pubescent, us. ciliolate on margins. Capitula solitary, c. 1-1·5 cm. diam., terminal, on short peduncles. Phyll. in 3 series, outer small, inner c. 5 mm. long, linear, acute, sparingly hispid. Ray-florets narrow, white, spreading; disk-florets slender. Achenes compressed, linear, c. 3-3·5 mm. long, striate, pubescent to hispid. Pappus c. 4 mm. long; hairs unequal, slender, minutely barbellate.

DIST.: N., S. Grassland and open places from Great Barrier Id and lat. 35° 30' southwards.

FL.- FT. 11-1-(3).