Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Olearia Moench
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Olearia solandri (Hook.f.) Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 128 (1864)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Eurybia solandri Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 119 (1853)
  • ≡ Aster solandri (Hook.f.) F.Muell., Fragm. (Mueller) 5, 86 (1866)
  • = Olearia fasciculifolia Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 25: 330 (1892 [1893])
  • = Olearia consimilis Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 28: 596 (1895 [1896])
  • = Olearia quinquefida Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 28: 596 (1895 [1896])
Vernacular Name(s):
Coastal tree daisy; takupurenga
 Description

Shrub or small tree up to 4 m. tall with rather stiff, spreading, angled, viscid branchlets clad in yellowish tomentum. Lvs of young plants and reversion shoots linear-spathulate, up to 1·5 cm. long, white-tomentose below; lvs of adult plants 5–10 mm. long, linear-obovate, on petioles c. 1 mm. long, subcoriac., glab. above when mature, clad in yellowish tomentum below, margins flat to slightly revolute. Capitula up to 10 × 5–7 mm., solitary, on short branchlets; florets 8–20, of ray up to 14; phyll. in 3–4 series, ∞, forming a narrow-turbinate involucre, fulvous, viscid-pubescent. Achenes 1–1·5 mm. long, glab. or nearly so, compressed, grooved; pappus-hairs 5–6 mm. long.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Feb.–May.; Fruiting: Apr.–Jun.

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