Olearia curticoma

Bushy shrub to c. 3.5 m high; branchlets glabrous, resinous. Leaves alternate, sessile or subsessile, linear, 11–22 mm long, 0.8–1.5 mm wide, wholly green, resinous; lower surface often slightly channelled either side of midrib on drying. Capitula 18–25 mm diam., terminal and solitary on peduncles c. 8–25 mm long; involucre more or less conical, 5–7 mm long; bracts 3–4-seriate, graduating, glabrous, green-tipped. Ray florets 10–16, white, ligules 9–12 mm long; disc florets about twice as many as ray florets, yellow. Cypsela narrow-ellipsoid, ca. 2.5–3 mm long, 6–8-ribbed, pale to reddish, sparsely sericeous; pappus whitish, no longer than body of cypsela. Flowers Dec.–May.