Capitula small, in large panicles, campanulate, 10-12-fld; phyll. in one series, linear, scarious, with or without minute subulate scales at base; receptacle foveolate. Ray-florets pistillate, white to creamy, 2-lipped to ligulate; upper lip short, broad, obscurely toothed to entire; lower lip 2-1-lobed, lobes narrow, reflexed, sts absent. Disk-florets perfect, tubular-campanulate. Anther-cells not or shortly tailed at base; style-arms truncate, papillose at tip. Achenes subterete, hispid-papillose. Shrubs or small trees with alt. lvs, spreading branches and fragrant fls. Genus very closely related to Senecio, endemic to N.Z.
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