Family: Asteraceae
Olearia lepidophylla
Citation:
Benth., Fl. Aust. 3:477 (1867).
Synonymy: Aster lepidophyllus Pers., Syn. Fl. 2:442 (1807); Aster microphyllus sensu Labill., Nov. Holl. Pl. Sp. 2:51 (1806), non Vent.
Common name: Club-moss daisy-bush.
Description:
Compact rigid shrub to 1.5 m high; stems erect, branched, woody, thinly white-tomentose, without ribs; leaves sessile, reflexed, in dense clusters representing reduced lateral branchlets, ovoid, 0.5-1 mm long, almost glabrous above, tomentose on the concealed lower surface, without prominent veins; margins entire, revolute.
Capitula solitary, sessile, terminal on erect branchlets 1-10 cm long sometimes forming a loose leafy panicle; involucres cylindrical, 4-5 mm long; bracts 3-4-seriate, linear, acute to obtuse, tomentose at the apex; ray florets 3-6; ligules oblong, 3-5 mm long, white; disk florets 5-8, pale-mauve.
Achenes compressed-terete, c. 2 mm long, striate, pubescent; pappus bristles 25-30, 3-4 mm long, subequal.
Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 643.
Distribution:
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In mallee and heath communities on sandy soils.
S.Aust.: GT, EP, MU, SE. N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Dec. — March.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
Not yet available
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