Where found:

• Lower montane forest and scrub, Mt Taranaki/Egmont
  
• Up to 1200 metres
  

• Shrub or small tree with angular branches
  
• Thin but leathery broad leaves with bluntly toothed margins, shiny upper surface, satiny dense matted hairs (tomentum) on the undersurface
  
• Large round white flowerheads with 15-20 individual flowers (up to 15 mm) on each
  
• Thin, papery bark which peels in long thin flakes