Olearia calcarea

Spreading shrub to c. 0.8 m high; branchlets glabrous, resinous. Leaves spathulate to obovate, 8–15 mm long, 3–10 mm wide, glabrous, resinous, slightly paler beneath, shallowly dentate toward apex, the narrowly tapered base shortly decurrent on the stem; margin flat. Capitula terminal, solitary, sessile or subsessile, 31–45 mm diam.; involucre conical, 9–12 mm long; bracts 6–8-seriate, graduating, glabrous, resinous, conspicuously darker toward apex, margin often minutely ciliate. Ray florets 9–13, pale purple to white, ligules 18–25 mm long; disc florets 21–30, yellow. Cypsela cylindric, 4–6-ribbed, 5–6 mm long, sericeous; pappus bristles white to straw-coloured, 8–10 mm long. Flowers Jul.–Sep.