Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Olearia Moench
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Olearia moschata Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 127 (1864)
Vernacular Name(s):
Musky tree daisy
 Description

Shrub up to 4 m. tall, with musky fragrance; branchlets stout, clad in soft white appressed tomentum. Lvs rather close-set, 8–15 × c. 5 mm. including petiole 1 mm. long, coriac., obovate-oblong, margins flat, glab. or nearly so above, clad in appressed white tomentum below. Capitula 6–7 × 5–6 mm., on slender tomentose pedicels, c. 20–30 per corymb. Phyll. in 2–4 series; lower short, ovate, pilose; inner narrow-oblong, pilose to glab., up to 4 mm. long. Florets 12–20 per capitulum, ray-florets up to 12; achenes ribbed, pilose, 3 mm. long; pappus-hairs up to 6 mm. long.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Fruiting: Nov.–Mar.

 Bibliography
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]
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.