| Olearia chrysophylla | |
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Scientific classification
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Olearia |
| Species: | O. chrysophylla
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| Binomial name | |
| Olearia chrysophylla | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Olearia chrysophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with scattered elliptic leaves, and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.
Description
Olearia chrysophylla is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 3 m (9.8 ft). It has scattered elliptic leaves arranged in opposite pairs, 15–115 mm (0.59–4.53 in) long and 4–38 mm (0.16–1.50 in) wide on a petiole up to 12 mm (0.47 in) long, the edges of the leaves sometimes with indistinct teeth. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous but the lower surface is covered with felt-like, pale brown hairs. The heads or daisy-like "flowers" are arranged on the ends of branchlets and are 22–28 mm (0.87–1.10 in) in diameter on a peduncle up to 53 mm (2.1 in) long. Each head has four to seven white ray florets surrounding twelve to fourteen yellow disc florets. Flowering occurs from November to January and the fruit is a glabrous achene, the pappus with 73 to 85 bristles in two rows. [2]
Taxonomy
This daisy bush was first formally described in 1836 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle who gave it the name Eurybia chrysophylla in his Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis. [3] [4] In 1867 George Bentham changed that name to Olearia chrysophylla in Flora Australiensis. [5] [6] The specific epithet (chrysophylla) means "golden-leaved". [7]
Distribution and habitat
Olearia chrysophylla grows in forest, usually at higher altitudes from south-east Queensland to the New England National Park in New South Wales, sometimes as far inland as Jenolan Caves and Bathurst. [2]
References
- ^ a b "Olearia chrysophylla". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
- ^ a b Lander, Nicholas S. "Olearia chrysophylla". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
- ^ "Eurybia chrysophylla". APNI. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
- ^ de Candolle, Augustin P.; de Candolle, Alphonse (1836). Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis. Vol. 5. Paris. p. 266. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
- ^ "Olearia chrysophylla". APNI. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
- ^ Bentham, George; von Mueller, Ferdinand (1867). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 3. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. p. 475. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
- ^ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 163. ISBN 9780958034180.