Flora of New Zealand Series

Ozothamnus vauvilliersii Homb. et Jacq. ex Decne in Voy Pôle Sud 1853, 38, f. 5.

Olearia xanthophylla Col. in T.N.Z.I. 20, 1888, 193.

Type locality: Auckland Is. Type: ? Occ. flowering as late as April.

Shrub up to 3 m. tall; branchlets rather stout, furrowed, ± glutinous, clad in fulvous tomentum. Lvs 5-12 × 2-3 mm., finally spreading from erect petioles, coriac., becoming glab. above, clad in fulvous tomentum below, linear-spathulate to narrow oblong-obovate, margins slightly revolute, midrib prominent below. Capitula 10-20 or more, in dense corymbs, pedicels short. Phyll. in 3-4 series, outer tomentose on back, inner with white radiating tips; forming a turbinate involucre c. 4 mm. long. Scales of receptacle ∞, white-tipped; florets 8-15; achenes hardly 1 mm. long, glab. to sparsely pubescent; pappus-hairs up to 4·5 mm. long, distinctly thickened at tips.

DIST.: N., S., A. Lowland to montane or lower subalpine shrubland and grassland from lat. 37° southwards.