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Shrub or tree up to 5 m. tall; branchlets rather stout, grooved, densely clad in yellowish brown tomentum. Lvs 5–10 × 2–3·5 cm. including petiole up to 3 cm. long, somewhat obliquely narrow elliptic-oblong, coriac., glab. above when mature, clad in dense smooth yellowish white tomentum below, margins slightly sinuate or undulate. Capitula 8–9 mm. long, ∞, on long slender pedicels in large corymbs; phyll. in 3–4 series, outer ovate, inner elliptic-oblong, ± pilose; florets 10–15. Achenes deeply grooved, pilose with spreading hairs; pappus-hairs subequal.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]