Family: Asteraceae
Olearia lanuginosa
Citation:
Wakef., Victorian Nat. 73:96 (1956).
Synonymy: Aster microphyllus sensu Tare, Hdbk Fl. Extratrop. S. Aust. 113 (1890), non Vent.; O. rioribunda (Hook. f.) Benth, var. lanuginosa J.H. Willis, Muelleria 1:29 (1956); O. lepidophylla sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 870 (1957), non (Pers.)Benth.
, Olearia floribunda Common name: Woolly daisy-bush.
Description:
Compact rigid shrub to 1.5 m high; stems erect, branched,woody, densely white-tomentose, without ribs; leaves sessile, upcurved, clustered and imbricate on short reduced lateral branchlets, ovate to broad-ovate, thickened, 1-2.5 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, sparsely hairy above, tomentose below, grey-green, without prominent veins; margins entire, revolute.
Capitula sessile among leaves, terminal on reduced lateral branchlets 1-2.5 mm long, forming a narrow leafy spike-like panicle; involucres cylindrical, 4-5 mm long; bracts c. 3-seriate, linear, acute, tomentose at the apex; ray florets 4-6; ligules oblong, 3-5 mm long, white; disk florets 5-10, mauve.
Achenes terete, c. 1.5 mm long, striate, pubescent; pappus bristles 25-30, 2-3 mm long, subequal.
Distribution:
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In mallee and heath communities on sandy soils.
S.Aust.: EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, SE. N.S.W.; Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Oct. — Feb.
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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:
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Author:
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