Olearia traversii (F.Muell.) Hook.F.

Shrub or tree up to 10 m. tall, trunk up to 6 dm. diam., bark pale; branchlets tetragonous, clad as are infl.-branchlets in appressed silky tomentum. Lvs opp., (1·5)-4-6·5 × (1)-2.5-3 cm., oblong to ovate-oblong, acute, us. apiculate, coriac., entire, flat, glab. above when mature, clad in appressed silky tomentum below. Capitula c. 6·5 mm. diam., ∞, in axillary panicles; florets 5-15, all tubular; phyll. few, linear-oblong; achenes striate, compressed, silky-hairy; pappus-hairs fulvid, unequal.

Forests on Chatham Island.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.