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Prickly Shield Fern (Polystichum vestitum)Observer
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Dark green on the top surface, and pale green underneath, densely clad in palea c. 2 cm. on the underside mid rib. Stipes stout densely paleate 14-45 cm. x 5-10 mm. dark brown.
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Snow Totara (Podocarpus nivalis)Observer
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Prostrate shrub, with close set leaves, spirally arranged. Leaves rigid, coriac, with thickened margins. Seeds solitary ovoid, 3.5-5.5 mm. long, on top of a red, false fruit.
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Lesser New Zealand Eyebright (Euphrasia zelandica)Observer
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Flowers axillary in terminal racemes. Calyx campanulate, 4-lobed. Upper lip concave, short 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed, spreading. Leaves succulent, green to purplish at the apex, hispid.
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Leek Orchid (Prasophyllum colensoi)Observer
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Fleshy, glabrous, summer-green, perennial herb c. 30 cm. tall when flowering. Stem erect. Racemes 5-20 flowered. Perianth green, reddish-green, yellow-green.
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Mountain Astelia (Astelia nervosa)Observer
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Yellow green on the surface and covered in white tomentum underneath, with visible parallel venation. Hairs also visible on the margins.
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Snow Groundsel (Dolichoglottis scorzoneroides)Observer
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Plant up to 50 cm. tall, with stout stem, simple leafy, clad above in soft slender hairs mingled with glandular ones. Stem termintaed by broad corymb. Leaves entire, fleshy, glandular, basal 20 x 2 cm. linear to ovate-lanceolate, with sheathing base. Capitula c. 4-6 cm. in diameter with white ligules up to 3 cm.
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Azorella pallidaObserver
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Found next to an alpine creek. Leaves glabrous, succulent, dark green on the upper surface, and lighter green underneath with dark green venation.
Leaf petioles sheathed, glabrous and succulent.
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Olearia bullataObserver
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Bushy greyish shrub with wide-angled, interlacing branches, bearing wrinkled, narrow, rolled leaves that have tomentum underneath. Leaves 5-12 x 0.5-2 mm. Found in wetland area. Achenes with pappus.
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White Cushion Mountain Daisy (Celmisia sessiliflora)Observer
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Robust densely branched subshrub up to 10 cm. tall, branchlets close set, densely clad in imbricate leaves forming compact rosettes. Plant forming dense patches up to c. 1 m. in diameter. Leaves erect 2-3 mm., linear to linear-subulate, coriac, rigid. Capitula 10-20 mm. in diameter, white florets c. 15-17 mm. long, disc florest yellow c. 8 mm. long.
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Yellow Cushionplant (Phyllachne colensoi)Observer
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Cushion up to c. 10 cm. tall, more mat-like. Leaves c. 4 mm. long, thick, coriac, glossy, green, appressed, very closely imbricate. Corolla-lobes white, spreading, ovate-oblong, anthers purplish.
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Plant c. 3 m. tallLeaves c. 1.5 m. long, glaucous, with evident mid rib.
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Shrub with strict but flexible branchlets 2-3 mm. in diameter. Leaves scale-like and variable in shape, c. 2 mm. long, ovate-triangular, keeled, obtuse, embedded in whitish fuzz. Achenes < 1 mm. long; pappus hairs 3-4 mm. long.