Flora of New Zealand Series

Eurybia dentata Hook. f. var. oblongifolia Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 118.

O. dentata Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 126 non Moench Meth. Pl. Suppl. 1802, 254.

Type locality: Ruahine Range. Type: K, "N. Zealand, Colenso, 1849, 928".

Shrub or tree up to 6 m. tall, with musky fragrance; branchlets slender, with appressed tomentum. Lvs 5-10 × 2.5-4 cm. including petiole c. 8 mm. long, subobliquely ovate-oblong to oblong, acute to acuminate, rounded to truncate at base, coriac., glab. above when mature, clad in appressed white tomentum below; margins undulate, closely coarsely sharply dentate-serrate. Capitula ∞, up to 1 cm. long, in large corymbs; phyll. few, narrow, pubescent to villous; florets 8-12, rays short, narrow. Achenes grooved, pubescent to pilose; pappus-hairs unequal, dull white to reddish.

DIST .: N., S. Lowland to subalpine forest from lat. 37° 30' southwards, rather local.

FL. 10-2. FT. 11-3.