Olearia suffruticosa

Glabrous, slightly resinous subshrub to 70 cm high, many-branched from base (probably dying back annually). Leaves alternate, sessile, subappressed to stems, linear, 3–14(–24) mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide; upper surface channelled; lower surface convex, obscurely glandular. Capitula 14–20 mm diam., solitary and terminal on fine upper branches, forming a loose corymb or panicle; involucre c. hemispherical, c. 3 mm long; bracts 2–3-seriate, graduating, glandular, glabrous except for short cilia at the (often purplish) apex. Ray florets 12–20, white or pink, ligules 7–8 mm long; disc florets 16–28, yellow or pink. Cypsela terete, obscurely ribbed, c. 1 mm long, sericeous; pappus bristles c. 2 mm long, pink. Flowers Feb.–May.