- Taxon
- Gallery
Shrub up to 5 m. tall; branchlets slender, grooved, glab. or nearly so with dark reddish brown bark. Lvs in opp. fascicles of 2–4 on short branchlets, 2–5 × 0·5–2 cm., on slender petioles up to 5 mm. long, narrow-obovate to oblong-ovate or broad-obovate, submembr., glab. above when mature, clad in thin silvery tomentum below; margins flat, entire. Capitula 5 × 5 mm., in fascicles of 2–5 on slender drooping silky-hairy pedicels up to 1·5 cm. long; florets 20–25, ray-florets up to 15, narrow. Phyll. in 2 series, laxly imbricate, spreading, oblong, obtuse, pilose on back. Achenes 1–2 mm. long, compressed, striate, pilose, narrow-obovate in outline; pappus-hairs 3–5 mm. long.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Flowering: Oct.–Dec.; Fruiting: Dec.–Feb.