Olearia minor

Spreading shrub to c. 1 m high; branchlets and leaf undersurfaces densely pubescent with whitish cottony hairs. Leaves alternate, sessile or subsessile, elliptic or obovate, 1.5–8 mm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, obtuse or broadly acute, upper surface green, glabrous, or sparsely cobwebby when young, smooth or scabrous. Capitula 12–22 mm diam., solitary and terminal, sessile or subsessile; involucre conical, 4–6 mm long; bracts 4–5-seriate, graduating, glabrous near base, sparsely to densely pubescent toward the acute to obtuse apex. Ray florets 7–12, white to pale mauve, ligules 5.5–11 mm long; disc florets 6–13, yellow or mauve. Cypsela narrow-obovoid, c. 1–2 mm long, indistinctly ribbed, sparsely to densely sericeous, or glabrous; pappus bristles white or straw-coloured, 4–6 mm long. Flowers Aug.–Dec.