Classification
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Olearia lyallii Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 116 (1853)
Synonymy:
Vernacular Name(s):
Subantarctic tree daisy; Tūpare
 Description

Shrub or tree up to 10 m. tall; trunk up to 6 dm. diam.; branchlets stout, densely white-tomentose. Lvs 10–25 cm. long including petiole up to 5 mm. or more long, elliptic-ovate to ovate-orbicular, abruptly acute to acuminate, clad in dense white woolly tomentum below, irregularly doubly crenate. Racemes up to 26 cm. long with pedicels up to 8 cm. long subtended by woolly bracts. Capitula 3–4 cm. diam.; phyll. ∞ in several series, linear-oblong, acute, glab. except towards tips and on margins; florets dark brown; achenes 7 mm. long, ribbed, densely pilose; pappus-hairs up to 8 cm. long, dull white.

[From:  Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1. as Olearia colensoi var. grandis G.Simpson]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
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