Flora of New Zealand Series

S. muelleri Kirk in T.N.Z.I. 15, 1883, 359.

Shrub or tree up to 6 m. or more tall, with spreading stout branchlets, clad in persistent lf-bases. Lvs close-set, subcoriac., 7-18 × 2-4 cm., ovate- to elliptic-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, narrowed to broad appressed base, glab. above, clad below in appressed thin white tomentum; veinlets becoming evident and glab. when old. Infl. terminal in short dense panicles; pedicels densely glandular-pubescent, upper bracts linear. Capitula up to 2 cm. diam.; phyll. narrow-oblong, obtuse, glandular-pubescent on backs; ray-florets 10-15, ligules yellow, narrow, contorted. Achenes c. 2 mm. long, narrow-oblong, grooved, sparsely pubescent, becoming glab.; pappus-hairs up to 5 mm. long, barbellate.

DIST.: St., collected by Rev. Mr. Stack, fide Armstrong loc. cit.; description made from cultivated plant. Snares, Solander, Herekopare and other islets in Foveaux Strait.

FL. 12-2.