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Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Olearia crosby-smithiana Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 43: 254 (1911)
Description
Shrub up to 3 m. tall; branchlets rather stout, clad in persistent lf-bases. Lvs 5–10 cm. × 2–5 mm., on petioles up to 2 mm. long articulated on broadened base, very coriac., narrow-linear, glab. and rugose above, clad in cobwebby ferruginous to pale buff tomentum below; margins revolute almost to midrib, minutely sinuate-crenate; midrib stout, prominent below, lateral veins almost at right angles, stout, dividing surface into areoles. Infl. axillary to subulate bracts, sparingly subcorymbosely branched, 3–5 cm. long; peduncles and pedicels pilose to glab. Capitula 5–15, 5 mm. long, 5 mm. diam.; florets 4–6, ray-florets 0–2, linear; phyll. narrow-ovate to linear-oblong, almost scarious, pubescent to almost glab. obtuse to subacute, inner ciliolate. Achenes c. 1 mm. long, pilose, becoming glab., striate, narrowed to base; pappus-hairs 3–4 mm. long.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Phenology
Fruiting: Jan.–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. [Naturally uncommon]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
Petrie, D. 1911 ("1910"): Descriptions of New Native Phanerogams. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 43: 254–257.
