Shrubs or small trees 5–8 (–12) m high. Leaves: petiole (1–) 2–3 cm long; lamina oblong to narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, 10–22 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, flat, entire to crenate, blunt to rounded apically; upper surface dark glossy green, glabrous, with impressed veins; lower surface densely and thickly woolly-tomentose throughout, with hairs in 2 distinct layers (outermost thick-based, floccose), largely obscuring veins. Inflorescence an irregular panicle of (10–) 20–30 (–40) capitula in axils of several upper leaves. Florets 10–14 per capitulum, yellow to orange. Achenes 2.9–3.0 mm long, 0.6 mm diam., red-brown with 10 weakly paired vertical ribs.
Found in the shrub understorey of relatively wet tall open forest(e.g. Eucalyptus fastigiata-E. cypellocarpa-E. elata forest with understorey shrubs such as Pomaderris aspera, Cyathea australis, Polystichum, Dicksonia, Atherosperma, Elaeocarpus and Olearia argophylla) at altitudes up to 1160 m.
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