Flora of New Zealand Series

H. selago var. tomentosum Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 1906, 343.

Type locality: Mount Dobson, 4000 ft. Type: A, 24965, T. F. Cheeseman, Jan. 1883.

Depressed shrub sts up to 6 dm. tall with stout mains stem; branches with long-persistent lvs; branchlets 2-3 mm. diam. including lvs, tomentose, close-set. Lvs closely imbricate, c. 2-3 mm. long, appressed, broad-triangular, slightly convex, obtuse, densely clad on both surfaces in long tangled fulvous hairs (white where shaded). Capitula solitary, terminal, c. 6 mm. diam.; phyll. c. 25 in 3 series, up to 5 mm. long, linear-oblong, inner thickened at base, membr. to scarious and lustrous above, glab. except at acute apices. Florets 30-40, ♀ few; achenes c. 1·5 mm. long, linear, compressed or angled, with sparse short appressed hairs.

DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine rocky places: Mount Dobson at c. 1500 m., Cheeseman; Hunter's Hills, South Canterbury, Mrs. A. E. Woodhouse, J. Raeside; Mount Edwards at 900 m., H. H. Allan.