Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: base of Mount Tongariro. Type: K, Colenso 953.

Stoloniferous herb with stout rather woody main stem, bearing rosulate lvs and emitting stolons up to c. 25 cm. long, rooting at nodes and there with rosulate lvs. Lamina coriac. to submembr., oblong to oblong-spathulate to nearly obovate, glandular-pubescent on both surfaces with evident reticulate veins and midrib, bright green above, paler below, (10)-15-25-(30) × (5)-10-15 mm.; apex obtuse to subacute, us. apiculate; margins remotely to rather closely, coarsely serrate-dentate, teeth often apiculate; petiole c. 10-15 mm. long, winged, parallel ribs distinct; sheath narrow, membr., glab., ± 10 mm. long. Scape slender, glandular-pubescent, 5-15 cm. long, rather stiff; bracts linear-oblong, acute to acuminate, glandular, lower up to 15 mm. long. Capitula (12)-20-30 mm. diam.; phyll. linear-subulate, acuminate, clad in soft hairs, especially marginally, up to 8-9 mm. long. Ray-florets conspicuous, spreading, up to c. 15 mm. long; limb obovate-oblong, up to c. 4 mm. wide, 3-toothed. Disk-florets funnelform, 6-8 mm. long; teeth minute, ascending, narrow-triangular. Achenes narrow-cylindric, 2-3 mm. long, ribs with fine ascending hairs. Pappus-hairs up to 8 mm. long, very slender, very finely barbellate.

DIST.: N., S. Lowland to subalpine grassland, herbfield, fellfield and rocky places from c. lat. 39°30' southwards.

A polymorphic sp., of which the following vars have been described: