Olearia stellulata

Shrub to c. 2 m high; branchlets and leaf undersurfaces yellowish with dense, stellate hairs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, lanceolate or narrow-elliptic, 30–75 mm long; 6–18 mm wide; upper surface green, finally glabrous but slightly scabrous, usually stellate-pubescent when young; margin regularly serrate, typically with 5–10 teeth each side, cleft to one-third the distance toward the midrib. Capitula 15–25 mm diam., in terminal or subterminal panicles or corymbs; peduncles mostly 8–20 mm long; involucre c. hemispherical, 4–5 mm long; bracts c. 3-seriate, graduating, densely pubescent. Ray florets 8–15, white, ligules 6–10 mm long; disc florets 8–15, yellow or mauve. Cypsela narrow-obovoid, 6-ribbed, 1.5–2 mm long, shortly and sparsely pubescent; pappus bristles 3–4 mm long. Flowers Nov.–Jan.