- ≡ Ozothamnus depressus Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 134 (1852)
Usually a prostrate shrub, rarely more erect and up to 1 m tall; branchlets usually obscured by persistent, imbricate, appressed lvs and tomentum, sometimes with stem partly exposed below lf bases, 1–2 mm diam. (including lvs). Lvs covered by paper-like, flat, grey tomentum on lower, outer surface, densely tomentose on upper, inner surface, apetiolate, narrow-oblong to oblong- triangular, concave, obtuse and not or scarcely cucullate, 2.5–4–(5) × 0.5–1 mm. Lvs of young plants and shaded shoots spreading. Capitula 3–5 mm diam., solitary, sessile. Middle involucral bracts glabrous or sparsely hairy on lamina, oblong, obtuse to acute, not or slightly radiating, membranous, with pale and transparent lamina, and opaque stereome, 5–7 mm long. Disc yellow. Achenes glabrous, cylindric and angled or compressed, 1.8–2.3 mm long.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]