Flora of New Zealand Series

Eurybia albida Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 118.

Type locality: Auckland. Type: K, Sinclair.

Shrub or tree up to 5 m. tall; branchlets grooved, angular, clad in rather loose white tomentum. Lvs 7-10 × 2.5-3·5 cm. on petioles up to 2 cm. long; oblong to ovate-oblong, coriac., glab. above when mature, clad in soft white appressed tomentum below, margins flat to slightly undulate. Capitula ∞ on short sulcate pedicels, narrow, up to 7 mm. long; phyll. imbricate; lower ovate, pubescent, upper linear-oblong, ciliate. Florets 3-10 per capitulum, ray-florets 1-5, style-arms elongate. Achenes linear, ribbed, 1-1·5 mm. long, pubescent; pappus-hairs slightly thickened at tips, 3 mm. long.

DIST.: N. Coastal forest, local, from North Cape to lat. 38° 30'.

FL. 1-5. FT. 3-6.