Where found:

• Taranaki/Mt Egmont sub alpine scrub
  
• Between 1100 and 1400 metres above sea level in a broad shrub zone about 1km wide
  

• Most widespread species in the scrub or shrubland zone in Egmont National Park
  
• Rigid, multi-stemmed dense shrub
  
• Thick leathery leaves (60-90 mm x 30-50 mm), shiny above with the undersurface densely covered in buff woolly hairs
  
• Flower heads bright yellow
  
• Bracts of the flowers which remain on the shrub long after the seed has dispersed with the wind, are known as 'wood flowers'