Shrub up to 3 m. tall; branchlets rather stout, clad in persistent lf-bases. Lvs 5–10 cm. × 2–5 mm., on petioles up to 2 mm. long articulated on broadened base, very coriac., narrow-linear, glab. and rugose above, clad in cobwebby ferruginous to pale buff tomentum below; margins revolute almost to midrib, minutely sinuate-crenate; midrib stout, prominent below, lateral veins almost at right angles, stout, dividing surface into areoles. Infl. axillary to subulate bracts, sparingly subcorymbosely branched, 3–5 cm. long; peduncles and pedicels pilose to glab. Capitula 5–15, 5 mm. long, 5 mm. diam.; florets 4–6, ray-florets 0–2, linear; phyll. narrow-ovate to linear-oblong, almost scarious, pubescent to almost glab. obtuse to subacute, inner ciliolate. Achenes c. 1 mm. long, pilose, becoming glab., striate, narrowed to base; pappus-hairs 3–4 mm. long.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Fruiting: Jan.–Feb.