Olearia myrsinoides

Spreading shrub to c. 80 cm high; branchlets and leaf undersurfaces closely covered by whitish T-shaped hairs. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, obovate (often broadly) to elliptic, 4–30 mm long, 3–22 mm wide, moderately stiff; upper surface glabrous, dark green, usually with pale reticulate venation, lower surface whitish; margin denticulate; apex obtuse or rounded. Capitula 13–20 mm diam. on peduncles usually under 1 cm long, terminal and axillary in slender leafy panicles; involucre conical, 4–6 mm long; bracts 2–3-seriate, graduating, sericeous at least near apex. Ray florets 2–4, white, ligules 6–8 mm long; disc florets 3 or 4, yellow or mauve. Cypsela narrowly cylindric, 8-ribbed, 3–4 mm long, glabrous; pappus bristles commonly pinkish, 5–8 mm long Flowers Nov.–Mar.