Olearia ballii F.Muell. ex Hemsl.

Dense shrub to 1 (–1.5) m high. Leaves alternate, crowded, sessile or subsessile, linear, 5–12 mm long, 0.5–1.5 mm wide, entire, revolute, acute with a blunt tip, white-woolly beneath except on midrib, shiny (mid to) dark green and glabrous above. Capitula terminal, solitary, sessile, 1.5–2 cm diam.; involucral bracts without a distinct pilose midrib. Ray florets 20–30, c. 8 mm long, white with purple tips; disc florets c. 40, c. 4 mm long, purplish. Cypselas ellipsoidal, c. 3 mm long, length, brown, glandular; pappus uniseriate, of c. 30 bristles, c. 2 mm long.

Found from c. 400 m altitude to the tops of the mountains, where it is frequent. Open sunny ridges and cliff ledges (Department of Environment and Climate Change (NSW) 2007: 192).