Slender ± divaricate shrub up to c. 2.5 m. tall; branches slender, ± virgate; branchlets 4-angled, sulcate, elongate, opp., ± divaricate, pilose when young. Lvs in small opp. fascicles or occ. paired, 5-10-(20) × 3-5-(8) mm., entire, obovate to narrow-obovate, obtuse, subcoriac., glab. or nearly so above, clad in soft appressed white to buff tomentum below; petioles c. 1 mm. long. Capitula ± 8-9 mm. diam., in opp. fascicles or paired, on slender bracted or nude tomentose pedicels. Phyll. short, woolly-tomentose, in 2-(4) series. Ray-florets few, ligulate; disk-florets 6-8. Pappus-hairs white to reddish; achenes puberulous.
Lowland, shrubland and boggy ground, southwards from latitude 37°s on North, South and Stewart Islands.
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