Flora of New Zealand Series

Type: W, 3285, J. H. Macmahon.

Small subshrub forming compact cushions up to c. 4 dm. diam.; stems and branches stout, woody; living lvs in dense rosettes at tips of branchlets. Lamina of narrow obovate-oblong order, ± 20-35 × 6-8 mm., coriac.; both surfaces densely clad in buff to ferruginous long subappressed silky hairs; apex subacute, ± apiculate; margins slightly narrowed to petiole c. 6-7 mm. long; sheath c. 10 × 6·5 mm., clad without in very long hairs, very distinctly veined on inner surface. Scape c. 7·5-12.5 cm. long, densely clad in floccose buff to ferruginous tomentum; bracts ∞, linear-subulate, ascending, up to ± 2 cm. long, lamina floccose. Capitula 20-25 mm. diam.; phyll. ∞, linear-subulate, up to c. 12 mm. long, acute to acuminate, densely clad on both surfaces in long silky buff hairs. Ray-florets ± 12-15 mm. long, ∞; limb oblong, distinctly 3-toothed; disk-florets tubular, flaring at teeth, 5-7 mm. long. Achenes compressed-cylindric, grooved, ± 2 mm. long; ribs clad in long ascending hairs. Pappus-hairs up to c. 6 mm. long, slender, white, finely barbellate.

DIST.: S. Only known from rock-crevices near summit of Mount Stokes.

Herbarium specimens are quite brown but fresh plants seen have silvery lvs.