Hieracium pollichiae Sch.Bip.

Stolons 0. Stem erect, ± stout, 15–30 cm tall, with numerous long simple usually reflexed eglandular hairs below and numerous stellate hairs especially above. Lvs mostly basal, dull green with conspicuous dark purple streaks above, pale and often purplish beneath, elliptic or narrow-elliptic to lanceolate, acute, cuneate to abruptly cuneate at base, shallowly to coarsely dentate; teeth apiculate, the basal spreading; eglandular hairs sparse to 0 above, numerous beneath and on petiole, short and rough on margins; stellate hairs 0 above, 0 or sparse beneath. Rosette lvs petiolate; lamina (2)–5–12 × (1.5)–2–3.5 cm. Stem lvs 1–(2), similar to basal, subsessile. Capitula 3–5. Peduncles ± straight, with numerous to dense stellate hairs and sparse short glandular hairs. Involucre 9–11 mm long; bracts very narrowly triangular, with sparse to numerous dark-based eglandular hairs, sparse to numerous glandular hairs, and sparse to numerous stellate hairs. Florets bright yellow, not striped on outer face, c. 2–3× length of involucre. Achenes black, c. 3 × 0.5 mm. Pappus sordid, 6–7 mm long.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: Dec.–Mar.; Fruiting: Dec.–Mar.