Family: Asteraceae
Olearia adenolasia
Citation:
F. Muell. ex Benth., Fl. Aust. 3:480 (1867).
Synonymy: Aster adenolasius F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 5:67 (1865).
Common name: Woolly-glandular daisy-bush.
Description:
Glutinous aromatic shrub to 50 cm high; stems woody, erect, branched, glandular-pubescent, roughened with persistent leaf bases; leaves sessile, crowded, narrowly oblanceolate to linear, slightly expanded at the base, obtuse, 7-14 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, velvety with crowded glandular hairs and deep-green above, densely tomentose with soft cream non-glandular hairs and without a visible mid-vein below; margins entire, revolute.
Capitula solitary, terminal, subsessile; involucre broadly campanulate, 7-9 mm long; bracts c. 3-seriate, oblong, acute to subacute, entire or erose, sparsely glandular-pubescent, cobwebby on the margins; ray florets 9-15; ligules narrowly oblanceolate, acute, c. 8 mm long, white to blue-violet; disk florets 20-25, yellow.
Achenes elliptic, slightly flattened, c. 3 mm long, 4-5-striate, sericeous; pappus bristles 2-seriate, the outer ones 6-14, 1-2 mm long, the inner 30-35, 5-6 mm long.
Distribution:
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In mallee on sandy soils.
S.Aust.: EP. W.Aust.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Aug, — Oct.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Taxonomic notes:
The name O. adenolasia has sometimes been misapplied to a species with mixed glandular and non-glandular hairs, apparently endemic to W.Aust. S.Aust. material is conspecific with type material of Aster adenolasius in MEL.
Author:
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