- Taxon
- Gallery
- ≡ Psychrophyton grandiflorum (Hook.f.) Beauverd, Bull. Soc. Bot. Genève, sér. 2, 2: 232, f. 13 (1910)
Stems woody at base, much-branched; branches and branchlets densely to rather loosely arranged, the plant forming cushions or mats up to c. 15 cm. diam., occ. of more open habit. Lvs densely imbricate, 5–10 × 1–2 mm., 3-nerved, ovate-lanceolate-spathulate, tapering to subacute tip, clad in upper part on both surfaces in appressed silvery tomentum, loosely tomentose near base. Capitula up to 1·5 cm. diam.; inner phyll. linear, contracted near middle, obtuse, with conspicuous white radiate tips up to c. 5 mm. long. Florets 25–45; ♀ 8–15 with narrow slender corolla, perfect with funnelform corolla. Stylopodium prominent. Achenes < 1 mm. long, clad in silky hairs; pappus-hairs c. 5 mm. long, stiff, slightly thickened at tips.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]