Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Ruahine Range. Type: K, "N. Zealand, Colenso, No. 30".

Shrub up to 3 m. tall; branches grooved; branchlets, petioles and infl.-branchlets clad in pale buff to whitish woolly tomentum. Lvs 6-9 × 3-5 cm., on grooved petioles up to 5 cm. long; coriac., obovate- to lanceolate-oblong, obtuse; glab. and shining above with evident veins, clad in buff to whitish silvery appressed tomentum below. Panicle sub-pyramidal to subracemose, up to 15 cm. long; capitula campanulate to subcylindric, discoid, up to 1 cm. diam., on stout woolly-tomentose pedicels; phyll. coriac., oblong, obtuse, densely woolly tomentose on back. ♀ 0-3, disk-florets ∞.Achenes 1-2 mm. long, angled, oblong, rough-pubescent to nearly glab.; pappus-hairs stiff, sordid-white, up to 5 mm. long, barbellate, especially towards tips.

DIST.: N. Upper montane forest and scrub from lat. 37° 30' southwards.