Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Olearia allomii Kirk, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 3: 179 (1870 [1871]) – as Olearia Allomii
Description
Shrub up to 1 m. tall, us. less; branchlets stout, clad in smooth appressed silvery tomentum. Lvs 2.5–5 × 2–4 cm., obliquely ovate- to elliptic-oblong, very coriac., glab. above when mature, with appressed silvery tomentum below; midrib very prominent below, margins entire. Capitula c. 1·5 cm. diam., in branched corymbs on stout pedicels up to 2 cm. long. Florets 14–20 per capitulum, ray-florets 5–10. Phyll. laxly imbricate, broad-lanceolate, tomentose on back, forming a turbinate involucre. Achenes grooved, pilose to hispid; pappus-hairs brownish, plumose.
[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. [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]
Kirk, T. 1871 ("1870"): Descriptions of New Plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 3: 177–180.
