14. O. macrodonta, Baker in Gard. Chron. (1884) i. 604.—A shrub or small tree 5–20 ft. high, with a strong musky fragrance; branchlets clothed with closely appressed tomentum. Leaves alternate, 2–4 in. long, 1–1½ in. broad, ovate or ovate-oblong to narrow-oblong, acute or acuminate, rounded or rarely truncate at the base, rigid and coriaceous, silky above when young but becoming glabrous when mature, beneath clothed with closely appressed white tomentum; margins waved, coarsely and sharply toothed; veins at an obtuse angle to the midrib. Corymbs large, rounded, much-branched. Heads numerous, ¼–⅓ in. long, campanulate; scales of the involucre few, pubescent or villous. Florets 8–12; ray-florets 3–5, ligules short and narrow; disc-fiorets 4–7. Pappus-hairs unequal, dirty-white or reddish. Achenes short, grooved, pubescent.—Bot. Mag. t. 7065; Kirk, Students Fl. 268. O. dentata, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 126 (not of Mœnch.). Eurybia dentata var. oblongifoiia, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 118.
North and South Islands: In mountain districts from the East Cape and Taupo southwards. 1500–4000 ft. January–February.
A distinct species, at once recognised by the large coarsely toothed leaves.
15. O. ilicifolia, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 126.—Size and habit of O. macrodonta, and with the same musky fragrance. Branchlets stout, sometimes almost glabrous. Leaves alternate, 2–4 in. long, linear or linear-oblong or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, truncate or more rarely rounded at the base, rigid and coriaceous, usually clothed with thin yellowish-white tomentum beneath; margins much and deeply waved, sharply serrate-dentate, teeth hard and spinous; veins spreading at right angles. Inflorescence and heads much as in O. macrodonta.—Kirk, Students Fl. 269. Eurybia dentata var. linearifolia, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 118. O. multibracteolata, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii. (1885) 242.
Var. mollis, Kirk, Students' Fl. 269.—Young branchlets, inflorescence, and leaves beneath densely clothed with laxly appressed white or yellowish-white tomentum. Leaves rounded at the base, with much smaller, softer, and less spinous teeth; veins more prominent beneath.
North and South Islands, Stewart Island: In mountain districts from the East Cape and Taupo southwards. Sea-level to 4000 ft. January–February. Var. mollis: 'Nelson, Dall! Teremakau Valley, Westland, Petrie! Cockayne!
In its ordinary state this has a very different appearance to O. macrodonta, but intermediates are not uncommon.
16. O. Cunninghamii, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 126.—A shrub or small tree 8–25 ft. high; branches, inflorescence, petioles, and leaves beneath clothed with soft white or buiif tomentum. Leaves alternate, 2–6 in. long, very variable in shape, broadly ovate or elliptical to oblong or linear-oblong, acute or rarely obtuse, rounded or narrowed at the base; margins irregularly coarsely toothed;
