Flora of New Zealand Series

Shawia avicenniaefolia Raoul Choix 1846, 45.

Eurybia avicenniaefolia Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 120.

Type locality: Akaroa. Type: P, Raoul.

Shrub or tree up to 6 m. tall; branchlets angular, densely clad in white tomentum. Lvs 5-10 × 3-5 cm. including petiole up to 5 mm. long, elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, entire, subacute, coriac., glab. above when mature, clad below in dense appressed white to buff tomentum, margins flat. Corymbs much-branched on long peduncles; pedicels slender. Capitula ∞, up to 6 mm. long; phyll. few, imbricate, glab. to pubescent, forming a narrow involucre. Florets 2-3 per capitulum, rarely more; ray-florets 0-2. Achenes pilose.

DIST.: S., St. Lowland to montane shrubland, throughout. Akeake.

FL. 11-2. FT. 12-2.