Flora of New Zealand Series

Swammerdamia glomerata Raoul in Ann. Sci. nat. Sér. 3, 2, 1844, 120.

Ozothamnus glomeratus Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 1, 1844, 133.

Type locality: Akaroa. Type: P, Raoul.

Shrub up to 3 m. tall, with slender flexuous branchlets tomentose when young. Lvs 1-2.5 × 1-2 cm. on flattened petioles c. 5 mm. long, sub-orbicular, entire with minute mucro, subcoriac., glab. above when mature, clad in dense soft white tomentum below. Infl. of closely clustered or solitary glomerules, each with 10-15 capitula c. 3-5 mm. diam., on very short tomentose pedicels. Phyll. in 3-4 series, oblong, lowermost tomentose without, upper scarious, brownish. Florets 10-15, ♀ very few or absent; achenes c. 0·5 mm. long, compressed, striate, linear, papillose, pubescent, areolate at base; pappus-hairs subequal, up to 5 mm. long, slightly thickened at tips.

DIST.: N., S. Coastal and lowland shrubland and forest margins throughout.