Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Olearia Moench
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Olearia coriacea Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 276 (1899)
 Description

Shrub up to 3m. tall, with stout rigid pubescent branchlets. Lvs 1–2 cm. × 8–15 mm. including petiole up to 3 mm. long; very coriac., broad-ovate to suborbicular, glab. or nearly so above, clad in dense brownish white tomentum below, margins ± revolute and slightly undulate. Capitula shortly pedicelled, in small corymbose panicles; phyll. in several series, imbricate, forming a narrow involucre; outer short, glab. to pubescent, ± viscid-glandular. Florets solitary, tubular, perfect, whitish; achenes 1–3 mm. long, narrow-oblong, grooved, clad in appressed white tomentum in upper part, glab. below; pappus-hairs up to 3 mm. long.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Mar.–Apr.

 Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Naturally uncommon]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.