Var. petiolata. Kirk, l.c.—Smaller in all its parts. Leaves with an oblong blade suddenly narrowed into a distinct petiole at the top of the expanded sheath, often quite glabrous above, the tomentum of the under-surface more silvery and appressed. Heads smaller, ½–¾ in. diam.
North Island: Summit of Moehau (Cape Colville), Adams! Mount Hikurangi, Colenso, Adams and Petrie! Ruahine Mountains, Colenso! Tararua Mountains, Buchanan. South Island: Not uncommon on the mountains as far south as Canterbury and the west of Otago. 2500–5000 ft. December–January.
The typical state, with large broad plaited leaves clothed on both surfaces with snow-white tomentum, has a very distinct appearance; but small forms, with smaller and narrower leaves almost glabrous above, are difficult to separate from C. discolor.
13. C. Haastii, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 131.—Forming large patches. Rhizome creeping, putting up short erect branches. Leaves greenish-grey, 1½–3in. long, ½–1 in. wide, broadly oblong to oblong-spathulate or narrow obovate-spathulate, obtuse or acute, narrowed towards the base, subcoriaceous, glabrous and usually longitudinally plaited above, beneath clothed with thin whitish tomentum; margins recurved, minutely denticulate; sheaths ⅓–½ as long as the blade, thin, membranous, glabrous. Scapes usually several, 2–6 in. long, stout, densely tomentose or almost glabrous; bracts many, linear, acute or rarely obtuse, tomentose. Heads 1–1½ in. diam.; involucral bracts linear, acute or acuminate, membranous, softly tomentose or almost villous. Rays spreading. Achene linear, glabrous, longer than the pappus.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 284.
South Island: Not uncommon in the central and western portions of the Southern Alps, from the Spencer Mountains southwards. 3000–6000 ft. December–February.
Well marked by the greenish-grey foliage, stout usually tomentose scapes with numerous linear bracts, membranous involucral bracts, and glabrous achene.
14. C. Lindsayi, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 132.—Often forming large rounded masses. Stems stout, woody, prostrate; branches numerous, decumbent or suberect. Leaves numerous, crowded, 3–8 in. long, ½–1 in. broad, linear-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, coriaceous, obscurely and remotely denticulate or quite entire, glabrous above, clothed with appressed white tomentum beneath, midrib evident; sheaths broad, glabrous, deeply grooved. Scapes usually numerous, 2–8 in. long, slender, flexuous, glabrous or pubescent above; bracts linear. Heads 1–2 in. diam.; involucral bracts linear, acuminate, glabrate or pubescent. Ray-florets 30–40, spreading, rather distant. Tube of the disc-florets somewhat thickened; anther-cells obtuse at the base. Achene linear, silky.—Lindsay, Contrib. N.Z. Bot. 53, t. 3, f. 1; Bot. Mag. t. 7134; Kirk, Students' Fl. 284. Erigeron Bonplandii, Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. (1887) 213.
