- ≡ Ozothamnus coralloides Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 332 (1855)
Erect, spreading or ascending, much-branched shrub, up to 60 cm tall; branchlets obscured by persistent, imbricate, appressed lvs and tomentum, (4)–5–10 mm diam. (including lvs). Lvs glabrous on lower, outer surface, densely white-tomentose on upper, inner surface, apetiolate, oblong-spathulate, involute, obtuse and cucullate, (4)–5–6 × 2–3 mm. Lvs of seedlings and reversion shoots spreading, densely tomentose on both surfaces. Capitula 6–10 mm diam., solitary, sessile. Middle involucral bracts glabrous, oblong, obtuse to acute, not or slightly radiating, membranous, with pale and transparent lamina, and longer stereome, tinged brown or yellow and opaque, 4–6 mm long. Disc bright yellow. Achenes with short appressed hairs, cylindric, slightly angled or compressed, 1–1.5 mm long.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]