Where found:

• Subalpine scrub and shrubland
  
• Becomes more prominent at the upper altitudes of the scrub zone on Mt Taranaki/Egmont
  

• Shrub with erect or spreading branches
  
• The grooved branches are covered in a yellow sticky wool
  
• Leathery leaves (5-12 mm x 1-2 mm) with sticky brown hairs on the undersurface
  
• Dense flower heads are 25 - 40 mm across with 8 - 15 florets, flowering from December to April