Pachycladon novæ-zealandiæ, Hook. fil.
Braya novæ-zealandiæ, Hook. fil., Handb. N. Z. Fl., vol. i., p. 13.

A short depressed alpine plant, covered with stellate pubescence; root long, fusiform, ¼–⅓ inch diameter, bearing 1–6 stout branches, each branch terminating in a rosulate head of small imbricating leaves. Leaves in several series ⅓–½ inch long, including the petiole, pinnatifidly lobed and narrowed into flat, short petioles, those on the scapes with longer petioles, and a minute ovoid blade, which is digitately lobed at top; scapes numerous, shorter or longer than the leaves, rising from the branches or root below them, and spreading horizontally, 3–5-flowered; flowers white, 1/7 inch long, sepals obovate, obtuse, petals longer than the sepals, upper half round, tapering below to a narrow point; stamens 6, two longer than the others; pods ⅓ inch long, 1/12 inch broad, laterally compressed, linear oblong, septum incomplete; seeds 6–8 in each valve, ovoid, and with vertical ridges.

Hab.—Mount Alta Range, 6,000 feet alt.—Hector and Buchanan, 1862; A. McKay, 1881.