Flora of New Zealand Series

Type: W, J. D. Enys. For further details and response to cultivation see W. B. Brockie (Christchurch Domains Board, Bull. 2, 1946).

Glab. herb up to 10 cm. tall; seedlings with tuber-like rootlets; stock stout, erect or ascending, up to 4 cm. long; main roots thick, descending to ± 3 dm. Lvs radical on rigid petioles up to 5 cm. or more long, with broad sheaths; lamina greyish green, suborbicular in outline, cuneate to subreniform at base, 2-6 cm. diam., deeply 3-5-lobed, crenate to dentate. Scapes 1-(4), stout, nude, 1-fld, 1-2 cm. long. Fls (2)-4 cm. diam.; sepals 5, pale yellow, ovate-oblong, at length deflexed, 5 mm. or more long; petals 5-8 or more, golden yellow, broad-obovate, emarginate; gland 1 basal. Fruiting heads small, globose; achenes few, turgid, glab.; style subulate, ± = achenes, curved.

DIST.: S. Debris of limestone rocks, Castle Hill, Waimakariri R.

FL. 10-12. FT. 11-1.