Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Olearia Moench
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Olearia furfuracea (A.Rich.) Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 125 (1864)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Aster furfuraceus A.Rich., Essai Fl. Nouv.-Zél., 246 (1832)
  • ≡ Eurybia furfuracea (A.Rich.) DC., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 5, 267 (1836)
  • ≡ Haxtonia furfuracea (A.Rich.) A.Cunn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 2: 127 (1839)
  • ≡ Shawia furfuracea (A.Rich.) Raoul, Choix Pl. Nouv.-Zél. 45 (1846)
Vernacular Name(s):
Akepiro; Kūmara-kai-torouka; Tanguru; Wharangi-piro
 Description

Shrub or tree up to 5 m. tall, branchlets grooved, pubescent. Lvs 5–10 × 3–6 cm., on petioles up to 2.5 cm. long, obliquely ovate- to elliptic-oblong, coriac., glab. above when mature, clad in thin appressed brownish lustrous tomentum below, margins somewhat undulate, subentire to distantly or closely crenate-dentate. Capitula ∞ in large corymbs on rather slender pedicels, florets 8–12, ray-florets up to 5; phyll. pilose to ciliate, lanceolate- to elliptic-oblong. Achenes striate, pubescent to pilose, 2–2.5 mm. long, compressed, linear; pappus-hairs very unequal, thickened at tips, up to 5 mm. long.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Olearia furfuracea (A.Rich.) Hook.f.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)3
Total3
 Phenology

Flowering: Oct.–Jan.; Fruiting: Dec.–Feb.

 Bibliography
Cunningham, A. 1839: Florae insularum Novae Zelandiae precursor; or a specimen of the botany of the islands of New Zealand. Annals of Natural History 2: 125–132.
de Candolle, A.P. 1836: Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis. Vol. 5. Treuttel et Würtz, Paris.
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Raoul, E. 1846: Choix de plantes de la Nouvelle-Zélande: recueillies et décrites. Fortin Masson, Paris.
Richard, A. 1832: Essai d'une Flore de la Nouvelle Zélande. In: Dumont d'Urville, J. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Botanique. Tastu, Paris.