- ≡ Senecio cockaynei G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 72: 38 (1942)
Compactly branched shrub up to 1 m. tall; branches brittle, ± purple; branchlets at first pubescent, ribbed. Lvs 4–6 × 3–4 cm., on pubescent grooved petioles up to 2 cm. long, obliquely oblong to obovate, obtuse to subacute; glab. above, clad below in thin appressed silvery to greyish tomentum, midrib prominent, margins very obscurely toothed. Panicles terminal, branchlets tomentose, lower bracts foliaceous. Capitula sub-cylindric, c. 1 cm. long, 4 mm. diam., discoid. Phyll. narrow-lanceolate, acute to subacute, glab., margins scarious. ♀ us. absent, disk-florets c. 20. Achenes 3 mm. long, linear, grooved, pilose. Pappus-hairs barbellate.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Senecio cockaynei G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson]