Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Olearia Moench
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Olearia rani (A.Cunn.) Druce, Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isles 4 Suppl.: 638 (1917)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Brachyglottis rani A.Cunn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 2: 132 (1839)
  • = Eurybia cunninghamii Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 117, t. 30 (1853)
  • ≡ Olearia cunninghamii (Hook.f.) Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 126 (1864)
Vernacular Name(s):
Akewharangi; Heketara; Ngungu; Taraheke; Tātaraheke; Wharangi-piro
 Description

Shrub or tree up to 7 m. tall; branchlets, infl.-branchlets, petioles and lvs below clad in dense soft white to buff tomentum. Lvs ± 5–15 × 5 cm. including stout petiole up to 4 cm. long; coriac., broad elliptic-ovate to oblong, acute, repand, irregularly and rather distantly coarsely dentate. Capitula ∞, up to 1 cm. diam., in large panicles; florets 12–24 per capitulum; ray-florets ∞, broad, white to yellowish; phyll. woolly-pilose on back, subacute, ovate-lanceolate, in several series. Achenes 1–2 mm. long, glab. or nearly so except at tips, compressed, angled; pappus-hairs subequal, up to 4 mm. long.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Olearia rani (A.Cunn.) Druce
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)3
Total3
 Phenology

Flowering: Aug.–Nov.; Fruiting: Nov.–Jan.

 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.
Druce, G. C. 1917 ("1916"): Nomenclatural Notes: Chiefly African and Australian. Report / Botanical Society and Exchange Club of the British Isles for 1916, 4 Suppl.: 601–653.
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
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.
Stewart, J. 1971: Plants in New Zealand Poisonous to Man. New Zealand Department of Health, Wellington.