Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Mount Peel, Canterbury. Type: BD 72451, tussock-grassland at c. 600 m., coll. H. H. Allan 5/1/1919.

Slender shrub up to ± 3 dm. tall; branches lax, spreading; branchlets glabrate, at first clad in long white appressed to subappressed hairs; bark dark brown to almost black. Lvs ascending, becoming patent, approximate to distant, on petioles ± 1 mm. long. Lamina 9-10 × 2-4 mm., ovate-lanceolate to narrow-ovate to lanceolate (all forms may be on same plant) submembr. to subcoriac., dark green above, paler below; glab. or nearly so above, densely clad in appressed hairs below; margins and apex us. ciliate. Subfloral lvs broad-ovate, ± 7-8 × 5 mm. Infl. capitate, 5-12-fld; per. ± 7 mm. long, clad in appressed silky hairs; lobes ± 2 mm. long, broad-ovate to oblong. Fr. baccate, white or reddish, sts dry, ± 4 mm. long.

DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine grassland and herbfield, from lat. 43° to nearly 46°.

FL. 11-1. FT. 12-2.

Possibly occurs also in N. Specimens in herbaria have been referred to P. lyallii and P. tomentosa. Cockayne (Veg. N.Z. 1928, 449) indexed his references to P. pseudo-Lyallii Ckn. et Allan, but the name was not formally published.