Where found:

• Lower montane forest and scrub zone, Mt Taranaki/Egmont
  
• Stream banks and tracks or around clearings
  
• Up to 1200 metres
  

• Branching shrub or small tree with musky fragrance, branchlets stout and covered in soft hairs when young
  
• Narrow (50-100 mm x 10-20 mm), sharply serrated/prickly leaves, stiff and leathery with wavy margins and wide angle lateral veins, the lower surface is covered in yellowish satiny dense matted hairs (tomentum)
  
• Large white flowerheads of 10-15 flowers (each flower about 8 mm)on long stalks at the end of the branchlets,
  
• Bark is thin, papery and peels in long narrow strips