Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Olearia Moench
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Olearia fragrantissima Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 23: 398 (1890 [1891])
Vernacular Name(s):
Fragrant tree daisy
 Description

Shrub or tree up to 5 m. tall; bark dark reddish brown; branchlets rather rigid, flexuous, striate. Lvs 7·5–30 × 5–10 mm., on petioles up to 3 mm. long, elliptic-oblong to elliptic-ovate or broad-ovate to obovate, obtuse to acute; membr., glab. above when mature, clad in soft white tomentum below, margins flat, entire. Infl. of sessile to subsessile glomerules up to 2 cm. diam., each with up to 12 bracteate capitula; florets 4–8, fragrant, ray-florets broad; phyll. in 2–3 series, oblong, white-tomentose on back. Achenes 2 mm. long, hardly compressed, grooved, sparingly pilose; pappus-hairs 2–3 mm. long.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Oct.–Feb.

 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. [Declining]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
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. [Declining]
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. [Declining]
Petrie, M. A. 1891 ("1890"): Descriptions of new native plants, with notes on some known species. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 23: 398–407.