Olearia moschata Hook.f.
Type locality: Mount Cook area. Type: K, Haast 687.
Shrub up to 4 m. tall, with musky fragrance; branchlets stout, clad in soft white appressed tomentum. Lvs rather close-set, 8-15 × c. 5 mm. including petiole 1 mm. long, coriac., obovate-oblong, margins flat, glab. or nearly so above, clad in appressed white tomentum below. Capitula 6-7 × 5-6 mm., on slender tomentose pedicels, c. 20-30 per corymb. Phyll. in 2-4 series; lower short, ovate, pilose; inner narrow-oblong, pilose to glab., up to 4 mm. long. Florets 12-20 per capitulum, ray-florets up to 12; achenes ribbed, pilose, 3 mm. long; pappus-hairs up to 6 mm. long.
DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine shrubland from lat. 43° southwards.
FL.- FT. 11-3.
