Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Mount Cardrona (Central Otago) c. 1200 m. Type: W, D. Petrie.

Up to ± 2 dm. tall, with rather slender stock. Lvs mainly radical, rosulate, pinnate, up to 5 cm. long, sparsely to densely clad in slender hairs; terminal lflt c. 1-2 cm. long, broad-ovate to suborbicular, sharply serrate-dentate; lateral lflts 5-10 pairs, small, incised. Scapes simple to sparingly branched above, erect, up to 2 dm. long, pubescent, with intermingled long hairs; bracts lflike to reduced, incised, in several pairs. Fls few, c. 6-9 mm. diam.; calyx-lobes deltoid, bractlets minute; petals 5-6, white, suborbicular. Receptacle elongate, villous; achenes glab., ∞, subturgid, c. 2 mm. long, narrow-oblong; style very short, glab., recurved.

DIST.: N. Subalpine bogs, Ruahine Range. S. Montane to subalpine bogs, herbfield, and grassland. St. Descending to nearly sea level.

FL. 12-2. FT. 1-2.