A strange one. Sparse black fruit. Looks like a hybrid? There is C. tenuicaulis, C. areolata and C. propinqua around here.
Trackside on Waterfall Track at Peters Pass, St James Cycleway.
Off-track on Edwards Pass track Near Hanmer Springs.
Off-track from Fowlers Pass, off the Rainbow Road.
Three plants on dry clay cut bank of public walking track. Seeds 4.5 mm long, cuspis <0.5mm, involucral hairs. Avi Holzapfel, revisor of this genus in Australia confirmed the species level identification. New record for Picton, unrecorded in the upper South Island since 1800s when Thomas Cheeseman collected it from Nelson (Fox Hill).