Olearia lanuginosa

Erect, twiggy shrub to c. 1 m high; branchlets densely white-cottony. Leaves alternate, sessile, ovate to broad-ovate, 0.5–2 mm long, 0.5–1.3 mm wide, upcurved, densely clustered, each cluster typically 1–2.5 mm diam.; upper surface grey-green, usually sparsely cottony-pubescent, often tuberculate near margin; lower surface densely white-cottony; margins revolute. Capitula sessile, solitary, terminating short lateral branchlets or leaf clusters, 7–12 mm diam.; involucre narrowly conical, 3–4.5 mm long; bracts 3–4-seriate, graduating, acute, glabrous in lower part, usually cottony and/or viscid toward apex, rarely glabrous throughout. Ray florets 4–7, white to mauve, ligules 3–5 mm long; disc florets 5–10, mauve or yellowish. Cypsela cylindric, 1–1.5 mm long, villous; pappus bristles whitish, c. 2.5 mm long. Flowers Nov.–Mar.