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Family
Stock rather stout, multicipital, emitting short stolons densely clad in imbricate lvs, branches up to 3 cm. long; plant forming mosslike patches. Lvs close-set along branches, 6–10 × 1–2 mm., coriac., erect to patent, curved, narrowly linear to linear-oblong to subulate-oblong, subacute, ciliolate near sheathing base; midrib prominent. Capitula solitary, c. 3 mm. diam., subsessile, invested by lvs; phyll. up to 3 mm. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, scarious, nerves us. prominent. Florets 15–20; ♀ with slender corolla-tube, 4-lobed; disk-florets subfunnelform, us. 5-lobed. Achenes c. 1–2 mm. long, linear-clavate, distinctly to obscurely 4-ribbed, pubescent to glab.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]