Olearia rugosa

Shrub, often rather spindly, to 2.5 m high; branchlets stellate-tomentose. Leaves alternate, subsessile to petiolate, oblong, ovate or broad-elliptic, 7–80 mm long, 7–25(–45) mm wide, green above, wrinkled by impressed reticulate venation, tuberculate, simple-hispid, with or without finer scattered stellate hairs, grey to brownish and densely stellate-tomentose below; margin flat to recurved, coarsely serrate to deeply crenate, rarely entire or sinuate. Capitula 20–25 mm diam., terminal and/or upper-axillary, solitary or in corymbs, peduncles 0.5–5 cm long; involucre c. hemispherical, 4.5–5.5 mm long; bracts 4–6-seriate, graduating, stellate-tomentose entirely or only toward apex, margins often purplish. Ray florets 8–13, white, ligules 7–10 mm long; disc florets 10–16, yellow, or purplish, sometimes with a single stellate hair on the tip of each lobe. Cypsela cylindric, 5–6-ribbed, 2–2.5 mm long, moderately sericeous to glabrous; pappus bristles 4–5 mm long.