Flora of New Zealand Series

O. divaricata Ckn. Rep. Bot. Surv. St. Id 1909, 44.

Type locality: Table Hill, Stewart Id, subalpine meadow. Type: W, L. Cockayne.

Shrub up to 1 m. or more tall, with stiff divaricating quadrangular branchlets; lvs 1-1·5 cm. × c. 4 mm. including petiole c. 2 mm. long, linear-obovate to spathulate-cuneate, coriac., glab. above when mature, clad in ± dense ferruginous rather silky tomentum below; capitula solitary or in fascicles of 2-4, on slender pedicels c. 8 mm. long, clad in ferruginous tomentum; phyll. with ferruginous tomentum on back; florets c. 5-8; achenes with sparse hairs.

DIST.: S., St. Subalpine scrub; Fiordland from lat. 45° southwards.

FL.- FT. 10-2.