Flora of New Zealand Series

Type: Hope River Valley, G. Simpson, BD. Status uncertain; perhaps should be included under R. foliosus.

Spreading sparsely hairy herb up to ± 25 cm. long; stock rather slender to stout, main roots ∞.Radical lvs on slender petioles up to 15 cm. or more long, clad sparsely in appressed hairs; lamina pale green, up to 4 cm. diam., deltoid to broad-ovate, truncate to subcordate at base, irregularly crenately 3-5-lobed or coarsely crenate. Cauline lvs similar, smaller, often opp. Scape us. lengthening in fruit up to 15 cm. long. Fls us. in axils of cauline lvs, ± 1 cm. diam., pedicels short; sepals 5, ± 3 mm. long, ovate, membr.; petals 5, ± 6 mm. long, oblong, rounded at tips, yellow; gland basal 1. Fruiting heads ovoid 8-10 mm. long; receptacle glabrate; achenes obliquely obovate, ± 4 × 2 mm., compressed, margined; style minute, stout, straight.

DIST.: S. Moist places at lower forest margins and streamsides: Hope River Valley west of Hanmer; Travers Valley, R. Mason.