Flora of New Zealand Series

O. virgata var. γ Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 128.

O. lineata (Kirk) Ckn. in T.N.Z.I. 43, 1911, 173.

Shrub up to 2 m. tall, with very slender, drooping, grooved, angled, pubescent branchlets; lvs in distant fascicles, narrow-linear, 2-4 cm. long, glab. above when mature, clad in soft white tomentum below, margins strongly revolute; capitula with short or long (up to 4 cm.) slender pedicels; phyll. ± villous; disk-florets c. 6-10; achenes 1-2 mm. long, compressed, pubescent to nearly glab.; pappus-hairs 2-3 mm. long.

DIST.: S. Lowland shrubland and grassland and forest margins from lat. 45° southwards. St. Rakiahua Valley, Cockayne.

FL. 11-1. FT. 1-2. Kirk indicates no localities.