Flora of New Zealand Series

Eurybia semidentata F. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is 1864, 21.

Type: K, 32 Travers.

Shrub up to 1 m. tall; branchlets slender, clad in white floccose tomentum. Lvs 3·5-7 cm. × 6-9 mm., narrow-lanceolate, subsessile, rather distantly serrate in upper half, glab. above when mature, clad in white appressed tomentum below. Peduncles slender, tomentose, 5-8 cm. long, with ∞ lanceolate bracts. Capitula 2.5-3·5 cm. diam.; phyll. pilose towards tips and on margins, acute, up to 1 cm. long; ray-florets purple, disk-florets violet-purple; achenes linear, pubescent, c. 3 mm. long; pappus-hairs up to 7 mm. long.

DIST.: Ch. Peaty ground and bogs.

FL. 11-12. FT. 1-?

Var. albiflora Dorrien Smith in Kew Bull. 1910, 125. "Here" (a large bog) ". . . I discovered several bushes of an entirely white form of O. semidentata, unknown to Mr. Cox; he also found a lovely pink variety." An illustration is labelled "O. semidentata var. albiflora". The status needs further study.