Capitula small, in large panicles, campanulate, 10-12-fld; phyll. in one series, linear, scarious, with or without minute subulate scales at base; receptacle foveolate. Ray-florets pistillate, white to creamy, 2-lipped to ligulate; upper lip short, broad, obscurely toothed to entire; lower lip 2-1-lobed, lobes narrow, reflexed, sts absent. Disk-florets perfect, tubular-campanulate. Anther-cells not or shortly tailed at base; style-arms truncate, papillose at tip. Achenes subterete, hispid-papillose. Shrubs or small trees with alt. lvs, spreading branches and fragrant fls. Genus very closely related to Senecio, endemic to N.Z.

2n = 60

n = 30

2n = 60

2n = 60

n = 30

2n = 60

2n = 60

2n = 60

Pithy, soft-wooded, resinous shrubs, shrub-trees, or trees with cortical stem sclereids; leaves alternate, petiolate, arising from multilacunar nodes, not crowded at the ends of branches; petioles terete in section with a complex internal vasculature; blade pinnatinerved, nerves with a lignified bundle sheath, tomentose below with simple T-shaped hairs; capitula small, heterogamous, discoid, subradiate or radiate, disposed in simple to complex panicles borne terminally on axillary branches; involucral bracts 8(-9) in one whorl; florets 8-17, creamy white; hermaphrodite florets 4-11; corollas actinomorphic, 5-lobed to c. 2/3 way to filament insertion; female florets 4-6 in the outermost whorl; female corollas either tubular and equally 3-5 lobed with staminodes, or subligulate with the inner 1-2 lobes shorter than the outer 2-3 lobed ligule, or ligulate with ligule entire or 2-3 toothed and no longer than the tube; stamen-fllament-collar cylindrical; anther fibrous-layer thickenings polarised; achenes hairy with duplex round-tipped hairs; chromosomes number n=30 (Hair & Beuzenberg 1959) for B. repanda J. R. et G. Forst. and variety fragrans (syn. B. rangiora Hort.)