Handb. N.Z. Flora, vol. i., p. 87.

Plant, ½–1 inch high. Leaves long, petioled, numerous, rising from a small rhizome, ovate, generally 3-lobed, petioles forming a close bundle. Scape longer than the petioles, involucral leaves linear-oblong, acute, connate at the base. Fruit linear, scarcely 1/10 inch long, much longer than its pedicel, 5-ribbed, ribs terminating in unequal-sized hooked teeth. See description of flower in “Handb. N.Z. Fl.,” vol. i., p. 87.

Hab.—South Island: Black Peak, 6,000 feet alt.—Hector and Buchanan, 1862; A. McKay, 1881.

Plate XXVI., fig. 2, plant enlarged; 2 a and 2 b, fruit, front and side views.