Olearia ilicifolia Hook.f.
Eurybia dentata var. linearifolia Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 118.
O. multibracteolata Col. in T.N.Z.I. 17, 1885, 242.
Type locality: Mount Tongariro. Type: K, 46 Bidwill.
Shrub or tree up to 5 m. tall, with musky fragrance; branchlets rather stout, pubescent when young. Lvs 5-10 × 1-2 cm., on petioles up to 2 cm. long, linear-oblong to lanceolate, acute to acuminate, truncate at base, coriac., glab. above when mature, clad in thin appressed yellowish white tomentum below, margins strongly undulate, sharply serrate-dentate, teeth almost spinous; major lateral veins at very wide angle. Capitula ∞, small, on slender pedicels, in large corymbs; phyll. rather lax, spreading, outer villous on back, inner ciliate at tips; florets 10-15. Achenes c. 2 mm. long, linear-oblong, conspicuously ribbed, ribs with slender ascending hairs; pappus of cop. very slender white unequal hairs up to c. 4 mm. long.
DIST .: N., S., St. Lowland to subalpine forest and scrub from lat. 38° southwards.
FL. 11-1. FT. 12-2.
Colenso's O. multibracteolata, based on a single plant from "Forests about Woodville" collected by S. Hutching, is described as having phyll. "thickly covered with viscid glandular pubescence, odoriferous", and "very hairy" achenes with light brownish pappus-hairs; the poor specimens at K do not justify separation from the typical form.
