Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Whitcombe's Pass, on the edge of a lagoon, alt. 4200 ft." Type: K, Haast, 1866.

Glab., tufted herb up to 6 dm. tall, with stem ± 2.5 cm. at base. Lvs all radical on stout petioles up to 16 × 3 cm. Lamina 6-18 cm. long, broadly oblong, cuneately narrowed into petiole, or base cordate, coriac., coarsely crenate or doubly crenate. Scapes stout, up to 15 cm. long, simple to branched with 1-4 sessile or shortly stalked oblong bracts up to ± 5 cm. long. Fls us. ∞, 2-5 cm. diam.; sepals 5, broadly oblong to obovate-oblong, ± 1cm. long; petals 5, golden yellow, broadly obcuneate to obovate, 1·5 cm. long, emarginate or rounded at apex. Nectary glands 2-3, basal. Fruiting heads broad-oblong; receptacle pilose. Achenes ∞, somewhat turgid, ± pilose to glabrate, ± 2 mm. long; style slender, subulate, curved.

DIST.: S. Subalpine rocky places from lat. 43°-44°, along central chain.

FL. 1-3. FT. 3.