This plant has apparently not been collected since its original discovery nearly fifty years ago. Not having seen specimens, I have reproduced Hooker's description.
8. G. luteo-album, Linn. Sp. Plant. 851.—Annual or rarely biennial, clothed in all its parts with soft white woolly tomentum. Stems erect, ascending or decumbent, simple or branched at tiie base, 3–18 in. high. Lower leaves often petiolate, 1–3 in. long, linear or linear-spathulate to obovate-spathulate, obtuse or acute; upper smaller, sessile, linear or lanceolate, acute. Heads 15 diam., pale-yellow or brownish-yellow, glistening, in dense ebracteate clusters arranged in a corymbose manner at the ends of the branches. Involucre alnjost globose; bracts erect, oblong, obtuse, scarious, tips incurved. Female florets exceedingly numerous; hermaphrodite ones few. Achene minutely papillose.—A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 236; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 450; Raoul, Choix, 45; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 138; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 154; Kirk, Students' Fl. 298.
Kermadec Islands, North and South Islands, Stewart Island, Chatham Islands, Auckland Islands: Abundant throughout from sea-level to fully 3000 ft. November–March.
A common plant in almost all warm and many temperate countries.
9. G. japonicum, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 311.—Annual, erect, 6–20 in. high. Stems often woody at the base, branched, more or less white and cottony. Leaves scattered, 1–4 in. long, oblongspathulate or linear-spathulate to linear-lanceolate, the lower often petiolate, acute, glabrous above or nearly so, cottony-white beneath. Heads small. 16–14 in. long, compacted into dense globose clusters or compound heads ¼–1 in. diam., which either terminate the branches or are axillary, and are surrounded by 3–6 linear spreading floral leaves. Involucral bracts scarious, hyaline, erect, obtuse or the inner acute. Female florets very numerous; hermaphrodite ones few, sometimes solitary. Achene slightly compressed, glabrous. Pappus-hairs very slender, hardly connate at the base.—Benth. Fl. Austral. iii. 653; Kirk, Students' Fl. 300. G. involucratum, Forst. Prodr. n. 291; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 241; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 453; Raoul, Choix, 45; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 139; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 155. G. virgatum. Banks and Sol. ex Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 139. G. lanatum, Forst. Prodr. n. 290; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 452. G. Cunninghamii, D.C. Prodr. vi. 235.
Kermadec Islands, North and South Islands, Stewart Island, Chatham Islands: Abundant throughout from sea-level to 2500ft. November–January.
Found also in Norfolk Island, Lord Howe's Island, Australia and Tasmania) and northwards to the Malay Archipelago, China, and Japan.
