Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Olearia laxiflora Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 275 (1899)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Olearia virgata var. laxiflora (Kirk) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 672 (1961)
- = Olearia divaricata Cockayne, Rep. Bot. Surv. Stewart Island 44 (1909)
- ≡ Olearia virgata var. divaricata (Cockayne) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 671-672 (1961)
Description
Shrub up to 3 m. tall; with slender divaricating branchlets; lvs linear-obovate, 1–1·5 cm. × 3–4 mm., glab. or nearly so above when mature, below clad in rather silky ferruginous to whitish tomentum; capitula solitary or in fascicles of 2–4 on slender pubescent pedicels up to 2 cm. long; phyll. villous at tips; achenes 1–2 mm. long, pilose above; pappus-hairs 3–5 mm. long.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Olearia virgata var. laxiflora (Kirk) Allan]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Cockayne, L. 1909: Report on a Botanical Survey of Stewart Island. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]
Heads, M. 1998: Biodiversity in the New Zealand divaricating tree daisies: Olearia sect. nov. (Compositae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 127(3): 239–285.
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.
