Olearia frostii

Low, often straggling greyish shrub to 40(–80) cm high; branchlets densely covered by stellate hairs. Leaves alternate, subsessile, obovate, 8–30 mm long, 5–13 mm wide, green or grey-green above with mid-dense stellate hairs, grey-white and densely stellate-tomentose below; margin flat to or recurved, shallowly crenate to dentate toward the obtuse apex, or entire. Capitula 25–50 mm diam., solitary to few terminating branches, peduncles mostly 3–10 cm long; involucre c. hemispherical, 9–12 mm long; bracts 3–5-seriate, subequal, densely stellate-tomentose. Ray florets 30–80, mauve to pink, ligules 8–15 mm long; disc florets c. 40–100, yellow. Cypsela narrow-obovoid, 2.5–4 mm long, 6-ribbed, glabrous; pappus bristles pale, 5–7 mm long. Flowers Jan.–Mar.