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Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Olearia hectori Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 128 (1864)
Vernacular Name(s):
Deciduous tree daisy
Description
Shrub up to 5 m. tall; branchlets slender, grooved, glab. or nearly so with dark reddish brown bark. Lvs in opp. fascicles of 2–4 on short branchlets, 2–5 × 0·5–2 cm., on slender petioles up to 5 mm. long, narrow-obovate to oblong-ovate or broad-obovate, submembr., glab. above when mature, clad in thin silvery tomentum below; margins flat, entire. Capitula 5 × 5 mm., in fascicles of 2–5 on slender drooping silky-hairy pedicels up to 1·5 cm. long; florets 20–25, ray-florets up to 15, narrow. Phyll. in 2 series, laxly imbricate, spreading, oblong, obtuse, pilose on back. Achenes 1–2 mm. long, compressed, striate, pilose, narrow-obovate in outline; pappus-hairs 3–5 mm. long.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Phenology
Flowering: Oct.–Dec.; Fruiting: Dec.–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. [Nationally Endangered]
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. [Nationally Endangered]
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. [Nationally Endangered]
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.
