Olearia astroloba

Greyish shrub to c. 0.5 m high; branchlets finely stellate-tomentose. Leaves alternate, sessile or subsessile, spathulate, 5–18 mm long, 3–10 mm wide, grey-green above with mid-dense stellate hairs, grey-white and densely stellate-tomentose below; margin thickened or recurved, dentate to shallowly lobed in the distal half. Capitula 15–35 mm diam., sessile, terminal; involucre c. hemispherical, 5.5–7.5 mm long; bracts 3–5-seriate, graduating, stellate-tomentose. Ray florets 12–24, mauve or violet, ligules 7–14 mm long; disc florets 12–45, purple, often with 1–few stellate hairs near the tip of each lobe. Cypsela narrow-obovoid, 2–2.5 mm long, 6-ribbed, densely sericeous, dark purplish; pappus bristles pale, 4–5 mm long. Flowers mainly May–Sep.