Olearia asterotricha

Rather sprawling shrub to c. 2 m high; branchlets stellate-tomentose. Leaves alternate, sessile or subsessile, linear, oblong or obovate, 6–30(–75) mm long, 2–6(–10) mm wide, green above with scattered to dense stellate hairs, grey to brownish and densely stellate-tomentose below; margin revolute, entire, sinuate or lobed to c. halfway to midrib. Capitula 20–40 mm diam., terminal and near-terminal, solitary or in clusters, usually pedunculate with peduncles to c. 50 mm long; involucre c. hemispherical, 4.5–7 mm long; bracts 1–3-seriate, subequal, stellate-tomentose. Ray florets 9–21, mauve, blue or white, ligules 7–15 mm long; disc florets 25–40, yellow or purplish, sometimes with a single stellate hair on the tip of each lobe. Cypsela cylindric, 6–8-ribbed, c. 3 mm long, glabrous to sparsely sericeous; pappus bristles straw-coloured, c. 4 mm long