Flora of New Zealand Series

Aster furfuraceus A. Rich. Essai Fl. N.Z. 1832, 246.

Eurybia furfuracea DC. Prodr. 5, 1836, 267.

Haxtonia furfuracea A. Cunn. in Ann. nat. Hist. 2, 1839, 127.

Shawia furfuracea Raoul Choix 1846, 45.

Type locality: .Thames River. Type: P?

Shrub or tree up to 5 m. tall, branchlets grooved, pubescent. Lvs 5-10 × 3-6 cm., on petioles up to 2.5 cm. long, obliquely ovate- to elliptic-oblong, coriac., glab. above when mature, clad in thin appressed brownish lustrous tomentum below, margins somewhat undulate, subentire to distantly or closely crenate-dentate. Capitula ∞ in large corymbs on rather slender pedicels, florets 8-12, ray-florets up to 5; phyll. pilose to ciliate, lanceolate- to elliptic-oblong. Achenes striate, pubescent to pilose, 2-2.5 mm. long, compressed, linear; pappus-hairs very unequal, thickened at tips, up to 5 mm. long.

DIST.: N. Shrubland, streamsides and forest margins from near North Cape to lat. 40°. Akepiro.

FL. 10-1. FT. 12-2.