Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Upper Kauaeranga Valley, Thames. Type: A, 9479, W. Townson, Jan. 1920.

Shrub or tree up to 5 m. tall; branchlets rather stout, grooved, densely clad in yellowish brown tomentum. Lvs 5-10 × 2-3·5 cm. including petiole up to 3 cm. long, somewhat obliquely narrow elliptic-oblong, coriac., glab. above when mature, clad in dense smooth yellowish white tomentum below, margins slightly sinuate or undulate. Capitula 8-9 mm. long, ∞, on long slender pedicels in large corymbs; phyll. in 3-4 series, outer ovate, inner elliptic-oblong, ± pilose; florets 10-15. Achenes deeply grooved, pilose with spreading hairs; pappus-hairs subequal.

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