Lake Ohau area, North Branch of Temple Stream, in Temple Cirque
Verbatim locality:
Lake Ohau area, North Branch of Temple Stream, in Temple Cirque
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4/04
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
7 Jan 2004
Start date:
2004-01-07
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
On old talus, covered by this species.
Notes:
Herb with erect stem and narrow rhizomes. Leaves all radical, with scattered simple hairs on both sides. Scapes with bulbous-based (black) hairs and some tiny white stellate ones. Phyllaries with numerous glandular hairs, black except distally behind bulbous apex, and some white stellate hairs. Capitula c. 1 cm across; disc yellow; rays golden. Almost solely occupying this large talus with many thousands of plants and numbering millions in the whole cirque.