Class
Order
Family
Stock slender, stems occ. solitary, us. close-set forming mosslike patches up to 5 cm. diam. Lvs densely imbricate, coriac., 3–4 × < 1 mm., linear-oblong, retuse, margins thickened above sheathing-base. Capitula sessile, terminal, minute, invested by lvs; phyll. c. 5, oblong, obtuse to apiculate, obscurely veined. Florets 4–8; ♀ with slender, cylindric, obscurely toothed corolla-tube; disk-florets with tubular more distinctly toothed corolla-tube. Achenes pubescent to setose, clavate, 4-angled; angles produced into slender setae.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]