Flora of New Zealand Series

Type: W, 3389. Status uncertain.

Much-branched shrub up to 45 cm. tall, with loose bark; branchlets thinly tomentose. Lvs close-set, subcoriac., oblong-spathulate; lamina spreading, 10-15 × 5-10 mm., on flattened erect petiole 5-10 mm. long, thinly tomentose becoming nearly glab. above, clad in dense white tomentum below, midrib evident. Capitula solitary, up to 2 cm. diam., c. 5 together on slender bracted branchlets c. 7 cm. long; phyll. linear-oblong, obtuse to subacute, tomentose on back. Ray-florets c. 15, c. 1 cm. long, yellow. Achenes (submature) linear-oblong, compressed, striate, c. 1-1·5 mm. long; pappus-hairs (submature) up to 5 mm. long, white, slender, barbellate.

DIST.: S. Described from a cultivated plant collected by W.A. Thomson on slopes of Mount Diana, Lake County, "in damp rather open stations at the edge of forest".