Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Olearia Moench
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Olearia lineata (Kirk) Cockayne, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 43: 173 (1911)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Olearia virgata var. lineata Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 276 (1899)
  • = Olearia virgata var. γ Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 128 (1864)
 Description

Shrub up to 2 m. tall, with very slender, drooping, grooved, angled, pubescent branchlets; lvs in distant fascicles, narrow-linear, 2–4 cm. long, glab. above when mature, clad in soft white tomentum below, margins strongly revolute; capitula with short or long (up to 4 cm.) slender pedicels; phyll. ± villous; disk-florets c. 6–10; achenes 1–2 mm. long, compressed, pubescent to nearly glab.; pappus-hairs 2–3 mm. long.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Olearia virgata var. lineata Kirk]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Cockayne, L. 1911: Some hitherto-unrecorded plant-habitats (VI). Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 43: 169–174.
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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.
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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.
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.