Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Macrae's Run, Marlborough. Type: K, D. Monro, Christmas 1853.

Stout, densely branched, up to ± 6 dm. tall; branchlets us. glabrate except for axillary tufts of hairs; lf-bases prominent; bark very dark brown to almost black. Lvs closely quadrifariously imbricate, sessile, ascending, at length subpatent. Lamina oblong to obovate-oblong to broad-elliptic, 4-9 × 3-6 mm., thick and coriac., slightly keeled; margins often reddish. Subfloral lvs ± 6-7 × 4-6 mm., thinner, broad-ovate. Infl. of dense 6-12-(20)-fld heads. Per. white to pinkish, densely white-silky hairy; tube 6-9 mm. long; lobes 3-4 mm. long, ovate-oblong, white-hairy. Fr. ovoid to ellipsoid, 3-4 mm. long, dry, brown, villous at apex.

DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine rocky places and fellfield throughout, but local.