Astelia nivicola is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteliaceae.

Cheeseman published this description posthumously in 1925: A tufted herb forming extensive patches in moist alpine hollows.

broad at the middle, coriaceous but flexible, gradually tapering upwards into an acute apex, keeled towards the base and stem-clasping, and then suddenly expanded into a thin and membranous almost transparent sheath; upper surface pale bronzy-green to glaucous-green, covered with a membranousnpellicle or more or less silky-tomentose; under-surface clothed with thin shaggy or villous whitish tomentum; veins variable in number, usually about 6 on each side of the rather slender midrib, which is sunken above but prominent beneath.

long and about as wide, nearly sessile among the bases of the uppermost leaves; branches few, short, densely compacted.

[1]Astelia nivicola is native to South Island of New Zealand.