Olearia argophylla

Shrub or tree to c. 10 m high; branchlets covered by dense, fine, appressed silvery hairs. Leaves alternate, ovate to broadly elliptic, (15–)30–120(–180) mm long; (10–)20–70(–90) mm wide; upper surface glabrous, dark green, reticulate-veined, lower surface white or silvery, minutely tomentose; margin dentate (rarely entire); petiole to c. 25 mm long. Capitula 12–27 mm diam., often profuse, in corymbs; peduncles to c. 20 mm long; involucre conical, 5–7 mm long; bracts 4–6-seriate, graduating, sericeous. Ray florets 3–8, white, ligules 4–10 mm long; disc florets 3–8, yellow. Cypsela narrowly cylindric, 6–8-ribbed, 2.5–4 mm long, sparsely sericeous between ribs; pappus bristles white, straw-coloured or pinkish, c. 5 mm long. Flowers mainly Sep.–Feb.