Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Mountains above Dusky Sound. Type: K, No. 13 Hector, 1863.

Small shrub or subshrub with rather stout procumbent to ascending branched woody stems up to c. 2 dm. long; branchlets stiff, rather close-set, ± 5 cm. long. Lvs densely imbricate, erect, finally reflexed. Lamina ± 5-10 × 1·5-2 mm., linear-oblong to subulate, coriac.; upper surface glab. or nearly so, pale green; lower surface densely clad in soft white tomentum obscuring midrib; margins strongly revolute; apex obtuse, ± trigonous-cucullate; base passing into broad pale membr. glab. sheath ± = lamina, with distinct midrib. Scape c. 1-4 cm. long, slender, densely glandular-pubescent; bracts few. ± 5 mm. long, linear. Capitula 2-2.5 cm. diam.; phyll. c. 5 mm. long, linear-oblong, acute to subacute, densely glandular-pubescent. Ray-florets narrow, disk-florets narrow-tubular, c. 5 mm. long. Achenes c. 3-4 mm. long, narrow-cylindric, obscurely ribbed, with a few hairs. Pappus-hairs fine, white to sordid-white, up to ± 4 mm. long, very minutely barbellate.

DIST.: S. Higher montane to subalpine rocky places and fellfield from near Mount Pisa southwards.