Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Otago Lake District". Type: K, Hector and Buchanan, Lake District, No. 21. "Lake District" of Hooker refers to Lakes Wanaka and Hawea.

Shrub up to 5 m. tall; branchlets slender, grooved, glab. or nearly so with dark reddish brown bark. Lvs in opp. fascicles of 2-4 on short branchlets, 2-5 × 0·5-2 cm., on slender petioles up to 5 mm. long, narrow-obovate to oblong-ovate or broad-obovate, submembr., glab. above when mature, clad in thin silvery tomentum below; margins flat, entire. Capitula 5 × 5 mm., in fascicles of 2-5 on slender drooping silky-hairy pedicels up to 1·5 cm. long; florets 20-25, ray-florets up to 15, narrow. Phyll. in 2 series, laxly imbricate, spreading, oblong, obtuse, pilose on back. Achenes 1-2 mm. long, compressed, striate, pilose, narrow-obovate in outline; pappus-hairs 3-5 mm. long.

DIST.: S. Lowland to montane shrubland from lat. 42° southwards.

FL. 10-12. FT. 12-2.