Olearia pannosa subsp. cardiophylla

Spreading, tuberous-rooted shrub to c. 1 m high; branchlets and leaf undersurfaces buff-coloured, woolly with Y-shaped hairs. Leaves alternate, ovate or cordate, 30-120 mm long, 18-65 mm wide, obtuse, flat, upper surface green, finally glabrous or remaining woolly about the midrib, with impressed reticulate venation; broadly obtuse, truncate or cordate at base; petiole to c. 22 m long. Capitula 35-75 mm diam., axillary and solitary; peduncles c. 5-25 cm long; involucre hemispherical, 15-21 mm long; bracts 3-6-seriate, graduating, woolly. Ray florets 8-18, white, ligules 18-45 mm long; disc florets c. 30-60, yellow. Cypsela cylindric, 8-10-ribbed, 5-8 mm long, pubescent, often reddish; pappus bristles pale to rusty, 8-10 mm long. Flowers Sep.–Nov.