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- = Picris hieracioides var. glabrata Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 151 (1853)
Biennial to perennial. Stem erect, branched above, grooved, 30–80 cm tall, with sparse to dense spreading bristly hairs each bearing 2 recurved barbs at apex. Lvs with spreading bristles, each bristle with 2 recurved barbs at apex. Basal lvs linear-oblanceolate, subentire to bluntly dentate, acute or subacute, 5–15 × 0.5–2 cm, tapered to short narrowly winged petiole. Stem lvs similar, the uppermost sessile, linear, subauriculate. Capitula numerous. Involucre 8–11 mm long; outer bracts linear-lanceolate, narrowly acute at apex, with short crisped hairs, bristly on midrib, c. ⅔ length of inner bracts; inner bracts similar. Corolla yellow, c. 11/2× length of involucre. Achenes fusiform, transversely wrinkled, red-brown, glabrous; body 3.5–5.5 mm long; beak very short or 0. Pappus dirty white, 2-rowed, the outer ciliolate, the inner plumose.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Flowering: Dec.–Apr.; Fruiting: Dec.–Apr.