Helichrysum depressum (Hook.f.) Benth. & Hook.f.
Ozothamnus depressus Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 1, 1844, 134.
Type locality: "Banks of streams at Wairau Pass, 2250'". Type: K, 45, near Nelson, Bidwill.
Us. a depressed shrub, rarely taller, up to 1 m. high; branches long retaining lvs and tomentum; final branchlets 1-2 mm. diam. including lvs. Lvs imbricate, linear, obtuse, erect, attached by appressed base, obtusely keeled on back and ± silky-tomentose; ventral surface concave, densely clad in greyish to white rather loose tomentum. Capitula terminal, sessile, c. 5 mm. diam.; outer phyll. short, densely tomentose without; inner linear, acute, scarious, up to 5 mm. long. Florets 8-12, ♀ 2-3; achenes compressed to angular, grooved, up to 1·25 mm. long, glab. when mature; pappus-hairs unequal, up to 7 mm. long.
DIST.: N. Tukituki riverbed, Hawke's Bay, Petrie. S. Lowland and montane riverbed and open ground throughout.
There occurs occ. a striking form with almost snow-white indumentum.
