- ≡ Senecio greyi Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 148, t. 38 (1852)
Spreading shrub up to c. 2 m. tall, with stout branches; branchlets and petioles densely clad in soft white tomentum. Lvs rather distant; lamina 4–8 × 2.5–4·5 cm., coriac., oblong to ovate-oblong, obtuse, rounded to obliquely shallowly cordate at base, entire to shallowly sinuate; upper surface of very young lvs white-tomentose, of mature lvs glab. and shining except on margins; lower surface densely clad in soft white tomentum, midrib prominent; petiole 1·5–4 cm. long, rather stout, channelled above. Infl. of ∞ terminal bracted branches; branchlets and pedicels densely glandular-pubescent, bracts foliaceous. Capitula up to 3 cm. diam., in large corymbs; phyll. 12–16, lanceolate-oblong, acute to subacute, glandular-pubescent on back. Ray-florets c. 15; ligules bright yellow, broad, spreading, c. 1 cm. long; achenes c. 1·5 mm. long, narrow-oblong, grooved, densely to sparsely scabridulous; pappus-hairs rather scanty, up to 4 mm. long, slender, finely barbellate.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Senecio greyi Hook.f.]