Ozothamnus stirlingii

Spreading shrub to 2(–3) m high; branchlets sparsely cottony, viscid. Leaves spreading, lanceolate to narrow-elliptic, mostly 5–12 cm long and 8–30 mm wide, glabrescent and viscid above, densely cottony and glandular beneath (midrib glabrescent, 2 intramarginal veins usually apparent), apex narrow-acute, margin flat; petioles 5–10 mm long. Inflorescences corymbose, (2–)3–7 cm diam. Capitula (3–)6–25, pale green, subglobose, 5.5–8 mm long, 5–8 mm wide; involucral bracts 40–56, innermost spathulate, with lamina elliptic, suberect, flat, white, margin entire; receptacle bracts absent; female florets 8–16; hermaphrodite florets c. 50–90. Cypsela narrow-ovoid, c. 1.5 mm long, sparsely papillose; pappus bristles c. 4 mm long, apex narrow clavate Flowers Nov.–Feb.