Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Kirk gives "Otago: Alpine, Buchanan! Petrie!" He had three small specimens, probably attributed as "alpine" by mistake. Type: W, D. Petrie; specimens poor, in fruit.

Rather stout depressed herb us. < 4 cm. tall, sparsely clad in stiff white hairs with tuberculate base, stock stout, ± branched, erect or ascending. Lvs radical, rosulate, coriac., on stout flattened petioles 0·5-2.5 cm. long; sheath broad; lamina 3-foliolate, 1-1·5 × 0·5-1 cm., pale green; Iflts deeply lobed to pinnatifid; segs subacute to obtuse, ± hairy, irregularly cut. Scapes 1-4, stout, 1-1·5 cm. long, 1-fld, hispid. Fls subsessile at anthesis, 8-9 mm. diam.; sepals 5, linear to narrow-oblong; petals 5, yellow, linear-spathulate, barely > sepals; gland 1, slightly below middle. Fruiting heads globose, ± 6 mm. diam.; achenes obliquely suborbicular-ovoid, slightly compressed, margin thickened, ± 2 mm. long; style 0·5-1 mm. long, minutely hooked.

DIST.: N. "moist places on sandhills near Hawera", Cheeseman. S. Coastal sands from near Dunedin to Fortrose.

FL. 9-11. FT. 10-1.