Brachyglottis repanda J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

Shrub or tree up to 6 m. or more tall, with stout brittle spreading branches densely clad in soft white to buff subappressed tomentum. Lvs membr. to subcoriac.; lamina 5-25 × 5-20 cm., broad-to ovate-oblong in outline, obtuse to subacute, obliquely cordate to truncate at base, margins distantly dentately lobed to sinuate; petiole stout, grooved, up to 10 cm. long. Panicles large, much-branched; capitula c. 5 mm. diam., ∞; phyll. c. 3 mm. long, narrow-oblong to narrow-spathulate, scarious except at very base, pale except at midvein. Florets 10-12; achenes < 1 mm. long, hispid-papillose; pappus-hairs up to 3 mm. long, minutely barbellate.

Coastal to lowland forest, forest margins and scrub; at elevations up to 600 metres.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.