Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Olearia thomsonii Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl., ed. 2, 918 (1925)
Description
Shrub or tree up to 5 m. tall; branchlets stout, terete, glab. or nearly so. Lvs 7–16 × 3–5 cm. including petiole up to 5 cm. long, oblong- to elliptic-ovate, parallel-sided, cuneately narrowed to base, subcoriac., entire or obscurely sinuate-dentate, glab. above when mature, clad in thin appressed silvery tomentum below. Capitula ∞, on slender pedicels up to 1·5 cm. long, in large corymbs. Phyll. in 4–5 series, tomentose on back, lower ovate, upper lanceolate; florets 12–20. Achenes 1·5–2 mm., ± obovate, clad in subappressed hairs; pappus cop., hairs unequal, up to ± 5 mm. long, white, rigid, finely barbellate.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1925: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Edition 2. Government Printer, Wellington.
Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. 2025: Reinstatement, broader circumscription, and infrageneric classification of Shawia (Astereae, Celmisiinae), a large woody genus endemic to Australasia. Phytoneuron 2025-49: 1–43 (online). (Published online: 11 September 2025)
