Flora of New Zealand Series

O. laxiflora Kirk Stud. Fl. 1899, 275.

Type locality: near Hokitika. Type: W, H. Tipler.

Shrub up to 3 m. tall; with slender divaricating branchlets; lvs linear-obovate, 1-1·5 cm. × 3-4 mm., glab. or nearly so above when mature, below clad in rather silky ferruginous to whitish tomentum; capitula solitary or in fascicles of 2-4 on slender pubescent pedicels up to 2 cm. long; phyll. villous at tips; achenes 1-2 mm. long, pilose above; pappus-hairs 3-5 mm. long.

DIST.: S. Forest margins and open places in lowlands, Westland, local. Doubtful Sound, W. A. Thomson.

FL. 11-1. FT. 1-2.

Kirk allies it to O. odorata.