- ≡ Senecio revolutus Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 348 (1899)
- = Senecio robustus Buchanan, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 6: 243 (1874) nom. illeg., non Senecio robustus Sch.Bip. 1845
Depressed to suberect shrub, occ. up to 5 dm. tall; main branches decumbent at base; branchlets erect or ascending, densely lfy, ending in erect stout peduncles c. 5 mm. diam., up to 10 cm. long, clad in linear-oblong foliaceous bracts, terminated by subcorymbose infl. Lf-laminae 3–6×2–3 cm., coriac., about elliptic-oblong, obtuse, glab. and rugose above, below clad in pale buff to white appressed viscid tomentum; midrib distinct, margins slightly revolute, crenately sinuate; petioles 1–2 cm. long, flattened, tomentose, widened to a persistent sheathing base. Capitula 5–15, up to 2 cm. diam., closely arranged on tomentose rather stout pedicels; phyll. linear, acute, tomentose and viscid on back. Ray-florets 10–15, ligules yellow, broad, recurved; achenes 3 mm. long, oblong, subcompressed, glab., strongly grooved; pappus-hairs up to 6 mm. long, finely barbellate.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Senecio revolutus Kirk]