Olearia axillaris

Bushy shrub to c. 2 m high; branchlets densely white-cottony, obscurely glandular. Leaves alternate, subsessile, linear to narrow-oblanceolate, (6–)10–25 mm long, 1–3 mm wide, upper surface green or grey-green, with cobwebby hairs or glabrous, lower surface densely white-cottony; margins recurved to revolute. Capitula sessile or subsessile, solitary in axils or terminating extremely short lateral branchlets, 5–10 mm diam.; involucre conical, 3.5–5 mm long; bracts 3–6-seriate, graduating, mostly glabrous but with a patch of cottony hairs near apex. Ray florets 3–6, white, ligules to 4 mm long, but sometimes not developed; disc florets 4–7, yellow. Cypsela narrowly obovoid, obscurely 6–9-ribbed, 1.5–3 mm long, sericeous; pappus bristles straw-coloured, c. 5 mm long. Flowers mostly Dec.–May.