Olearia fragrantissima Petrie
Type locality: Otepopo. Type: W, D. Petrie.
Shrub or tree up to 5 m. tall; bark dark reddish brown; branchlets rather rigid, flexuous, striate. Lvs 7·5-30 × 5-10 mm., on petioles up to 3 mm. long, elliptic-oblong to elliptic-ovate or broad-ovate to obovate, obtuse to acute; membr., glab. above when mature, clad in soft white tomentum below, margins flat, entire. Infl. of sessile to subsessile glomerules up to 2 cm. diam., each with up to 12 bracteate capitula; florets 4-8, fragrant, ray-florets broad; phyll. in 2-3 series, oblong, white-tomentose on back. Achenes 2 mm. long, hardly compressed, grooved, sparingly pilose; pappus-hairs 2-3 mm. long.
DIST .: S. Lowland shrubland and forest margins from Banks Peninsula southwards, east of divide.
FL. 10-2. FT. 11-?
