Olearia brevipedunculata

Shrub to c. 1 m high; branchlets whitish-grey, with dense, minute, stellate hairs. Leaves alternate, sessile to subsessile, elliptic, oblong or obovate, 5–16.5 mm long, 2–6.5 mm wide; upper surface greyish, with mid-dense stellate hairs; lower surface whitish-grey, rarely yellowish when young, densely stellate-hairy; venation largely obscured by hair; margin entire to irregularly and shallowly crenate. Capitula 15–22 mm diam., solitary and terminal, sessile or on short peduncles not exceeding the subtending leaves at anthesis but sometimes elongating to 15 mm long in fruit; involucre ± hemispherical, 4–7 mm long; bracts 3–4-seriate, graduating, pubescent. Ray florets 12–22, white, ligules 5–10 mm long; disc florets 14–30, yellow, glabrous or with a few short papillae at the tips of the lobes. Cypsela flattened-cylindric, obscurely 6-ribbed, 2–3 mm long, sericeous, sometimes glandular; pappus bristles 4–6 mm long. Flowers Dec.–Jan.