Celmisia hieraciifolia Hook.f.

Medium tufted herb, stock us. simple, pseudo-stem ± 4 cm. long. Lamina coriac., ± 4–8–12 cm. × (10)–12–20–(25) mm.; oblong-obovate to elliptic-oblong; upper surface glab., sts slightly viscid, pale green when fresh; lower densely clad in closely appressed satiny pale yellow to buff or almost white tomentum, nerves conspicuous in lower part; obtuse, sts apiculate; margins crenate to crenate-dentate, teeth us. with distinct apiculus, slightly narrowed to broad grooved short petiole or directly into glab. sheath c. 2 × 1 cm. Scape rather stout, 5–10–25 cm. long, viscid with dense glandular hairs. Bracts linear to subulate, glandular-pubescent, lower up to 4 cm. long. Capitula (2)–3–4–(5) cm. diam.; phyll. ± 13 mm. long, outer densely glandular-pubescent, linear-subulate, acute, midrib distinct, margins sts ± floccose. Ray-florets ∞, ± 12 mm. long, tube slender, limb narrow-linear. Disk-florets ± 7 mm. long, tubular to narrow-funnelform, teeth narrow-triangular. Achenes c. 5 mm. long, strongly ribbed, cylindric to subfusiform; hairs us. few, weak. Pappus-hairs white to sordid-white, slender, up to c. 6 mm. long, finely barbellate.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]