Flora of New Zealand Series

C. fimbriata DC. var. lanata Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 131.

Type locality: Upper Wairau River. Type: K, "Jan. 2nd, 1853, Munro".

Lvs and scapes clad in dense appressed to subappressed greyish white tomentum; upper surface sts becoming glab. when aged. Rosette-lvs c. 5-10 × 1·5-2.5 cm., obovate, gradually narrowed to flat petiole c. 3 cm. long. Lower scape-lvs similar, smaller; upper ovate, uppermost bractlike. Scapes c. 6-30 cm. long, c. 2 mm. diam. Glomerules c. 1·5-2 cm. diam., phyll. c. 4 mm. long, linear to oblong, obtuse to subacute. Florets c. 4 mm. long, yellow or white. Achenes c. 2 mm. long, subovoid to oblong, densely silky-hairy; pappus-hairs c. 4 mm. long.

DIST.: S. Tussock-grassland to herbfield from lat. 41° 30' to 45°.

A specimen in W collected by W. R. B. Oliver on Mana Id may come under this sp., but more information is necessary. The rosette-lvs are c. 7 × 3 cm., on petioles c. 4 cm. long, oblong-obovate, the surfaces ± densely clad in cottony tomentum.