Flora of New Zealand Series

Usually a prostrate shrub, rarely more erect and up to 1 m tall; branchlets usually obscured by persistent, imbricate, appressed lvs and tomentum, sometimes with stem partly exposed below lf bases, 1-2 mm diam. (including lvs). Lvs covered by paper-like, flat, grey tomentum on lower, outer surface, densely tomentose on upper, inner surface, apetiolate, narrow-oblong to oblong- triangular, concave, obtuse and not or scarcely cucullate, 2.5-4-(5) × 0.5-1 mm. Lvs of young plants and shaded shoots spreading. Capitula 3-5 mm diam., solitary, sessile. Middle involucral bracts glabrous or sparsely hairy on lamina, oblong, obtuse to acute, not or slightly radiating, membranous, with pale and transparent lamina, and opaque stereome, 5-7 mm long. Disc yellow. Achenes glabrous, cylindric and angled or compressed, 1.8-2.3 mm long.

N.: Tukituki R. (Hawke's Bay); S.: lowland to montane Nelson, Marlborough, Canterbury.

Endemic.

Rock outcrops, riverbeds and other stony places.