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- ≡ Solidago arborescens G.Forst., Fl. Ins. Austr. 56 (1786)
- = Steiractis aborescens DC., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 5, 345 (1836)
- = Shawia arborescens Raoul, Choix Pl. Nouv.-Zél. 45 (1846)
- = Eurybia alpina Lindl. & Paxton, Paxton's Fl. Gard. 2, 84 (1851)
- = Eurybia nitida Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 117 (1853)
- ≡ Olearia nitida (Hook.f.) Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 125 (1864)
- = Olearia populifolia Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 17: 243 (1884 [1885])
- = Olearia suborbiculata Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 18: 263 (1885 [1886])
- = Olearia erythropappa Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 22: 468 (1889 [1890])
- = Olearia multiflora Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 27: 387 (1895)
- = Olearia arborescens var. cordatifolia Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 268 (1899)
Shrub or tree up to 4 m. tall; branchlets angular. Lvs ± 4–8 × ± 2–4 cm. including petiole up to 2 cm. long, broad- to elliptic-ovate, acute, subcoriac.; glab. above when mature, clad in thin appressed satiny tomentum below; margins distantly sinuate-dentate to subentire. Corymbs large, effuse; pedicels slender, pubescent. Capitula up to 7 mm. long, 1·5 cm. diam.; phyll. imbricate, oblong-elliptic, obtuse to subacute, outer pilose on back, inner glab. except at tips and on margins. Florets 15–20; ray-florets 7–10 with a short broad ray. Achenes narrow-linear, c. 2 mm. long, compressed, pilose, striate; pappus-hairs up to 5 mm. long.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Flowering: Oct.–Jan.; Fruiting: Dec.–Mar.