Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Stewart Id. Type: K, "Southern Island, Lyall" i.e. Stewart Id.

Shrub or tree up to 6 m. tall; branchlets, lvs below, and peduncles clad in soft white tomentum. Lvs 7-15 × 1-2 cm., narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, subsessile, coriac., glab. above when mature, rather finely crenate-dentate, teeth calloused. Peduncles stout, with ∞ foliaceous bracts. Capitula 3·5-5 cm. diam.; phyll. in 2 series, outer tomentose on back. Ray-florets white, disk-florets purple; achenes linear, grooved, pilose; pappus-hairs slender.

DIST.: S. Coastal from Bluff to Preservation Inlet, and on islets in Foveaux Strait. St. Coastal headlands and on adjacent islets.

FL. 10-1. FT. 11-?