Shrub or tree up to 5 m. tall, with musky fragrance; branchlets rather stout, pubescent when young. Lvs 5-10 × 1-2 cm., on petioles up to 2 cm. long, linear-oblong to lanceolate, acute to acuminate, truncate at base, coriac., glab. above when mature, clad in thin appressed yellowish white tomentum below, margins strongly undulate, sharply serrate-dentate, teeth almost spinous; major lateral veins at very wide angle. Capitula ∞, small, on slender pedicels, in large corymbs; phyll. rather lax, spreading, outer villous on back, inner ciliate at tips; florets 10-15. Achenes c. 2 mm. long, linear-oblong, conspicuously ribbed, ribs with slender ascending hairs; pappus of cop. very slender white unequal hairs up to c. 4 mm. long.
Lowland to sub-alpine forest and scrub, southwards from latitude 38°s on North, South and Stewart Islands.
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