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Shrub up to 3 m. tall or more; branchlets, lvs below, and peduncles clad in soft white to slightly yellowish tomentum. Lvs 5–10 × 1·5–2 cm., narrow-oblanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed to winged petiole, coriac., glab. above when mature, closely bluntly dentate, teeth calloused. Peduncles 3–8 cm. long, stout, clad in foliaceous bracts. Capitula 3–4 cm. diam.; phyll. in 2–3 series, linear-oblong, acute, outer tomentose on back, inner glab. or nearly so except at tips. Ray-florets white, disk-florets yellow, receptacle up to 1 cm. diam.; achenes compressed, pilose, 4–5 mm. long; pappus-hairs slender, up to 6 mm. long.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1. as Olearia oporina (G.Forst.) Hook.f.]