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Scandent shrub or liane up to 8 m amongst scrub; branchlets (with appressed lvs) c. 1–1.5 mm diam. Lvs of 2 forms confined to distinct sections of stem; appressed lvs ± imbricate, sparsely to moderately brownish white-tomentose on lower, outer surface, becoming partly glabrous, densely white-tomentose on upper, inner surface, apetiolate, elliptic-ovate to narrow-oblong, involute, acute, 2–4 × 0.7–1.5 mm; spreading to reflexed lvs densely white-tomentose on lower surface, glabrous on upper, apetiolate, broad- to oblong-elliptic, revolute, obtuse and mucronate, 2.5–5–(7) × 1.5–2.5 mm. Capitula 3–5 mm diam., solitary, sessile. Middle involucral bracts almost glabrous to tomentose on lamina, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, not or slightly radiating, with greenish and opaque stereome and broad, transparent, membranous margins, c. 5 mm long. Disc pale yellow. Achenes glabrous, angled, 1.5–2 mm long.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]