Family: Asteraceae
Olearia grandiflora
Citation:
Hook., Hook. Ic. 9:t. 862 (1852).
Synonymy: Aster sonderi F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 5:83 (1865).
Common name: Mount Lofty daisy-bush.
Description:
Spreading undershrubs 30-90 cm high, producing root suckers; stems woody at the base only, sparsely branched, appressed-tomentose, without ribs; leaves shortly petiolate, ovate, acute, 4-10 cm long, 2-6 cm wide, prominently reticulate-veined, glabrous and shiny above, white- or rusty-tomentose below; margins flat, serrulate to denticulate.
Capitula solitary on stout terminal peduncles 12-35 cm long with 1 or 2 reduced leaves; involucre hemispherical, 16-24 mm long; bracts 5-6-seriate, lanceolate, acute, tomentose, becoming reflexed in fruit; ray florets 12-25; ligules oblong, 20-30 mm long, white; disk florets 35-50, yellow.
Achenes terete, 5-6 mm long, striate, sericeous; pappus bristles 50-75, multisetlate, mostly 8-10 mm long with a few shorten
Published illustration:
Holliday & Watton (1978)Australian native shrubs, p. 158.
Distribution:
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Shaded sites in forest and woodland.
S.Aust.: SL.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Nov. — Dec.
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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:
Closely related to O. pannosa subsp. pannosa, and differing chiefly in the serrulate leaves.
Author:
Not yet available
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