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Shrub or tree up to 6 m. tall; branchlets, lvs below, and peduncles clad in soft white tomentum. Lvs 7–15 × 1–2 cm., narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, subsessile, coriac., glab. above when mature, rather finely crenate-dentate, teeth calloused. Peduncles stout, with ∞ foliaceous bracts. Capitula 3·5–5 cm. diam.; phyll. in 2 series, outer tomentose on back. Ray-florets white, disk-florets purple; achenes linear, grooved, pilose; pappus-hairs slender.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1. as Olearia angustifolia Hook.f.]
Flowering: Oct.–Jan.