Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Palliser Bay. Type: K, Colenso 109, 1847.

Spreading shrub up to c. 2 m. tall, with stout branches; branchlets and petioles densely clad in soft white tomentum. Lvs rather distant; lamina 4-8 × 2.5-4·5 cm., coriac., oblong to ovate-oblong, obtuse, rounded to obliquely shallowly cordate at base, entire to shallowly sinuate; upper surface of very young lvs white-tomentose, of mature lvs glab. and shining except on margins; lower surface densely clad in soft white tomentum, midrib prominent; petiole 1·5-4 cm. long, rather stout, channelled above. Infl. of ∞ terminal bracted branches; branchlets and pedicels densely glandular-pubescent, bracts foliaceous. Capitula up to 3 cm. diam., in large corymbs; phyll. 12-16, lanceolate-oblong, acute to subacute, glandular-pubescent on back. Ray-florets c. 15; ligules bright yellow, broad, spreading, c. 1 cm. long; achenes c. 1·5 mm. long, narrow-oblong, grooved, densely to sparsely scabridulous; pappus-hairs rather scanty, up to 4 mm. long, slender, finely barbellate.

DIST.: N. Coastal rocks and adjacent ravines from Pahaoa River to Cape Turakirae, Wellington.