Olearia laxiflora Kirk

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Name scientific

Olearia laxiflora Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 275 (1899)

Preferred name

Olearia laxiflora Kirk

Taxonomy reference

Heads, M. 1998: Biodiversity in the New Zealand divaricating tree daisies: Olearia sect. nov. (Compositae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 127(3): 239–285.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Kirk

Original authors

Kirk

Publication place

Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.

Year published

1899

Publication page

275

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Olearia laxiflora Kirk

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Olearia laxiflora

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Compositae

Genus

Olearia

Species

laxiflora

Synonyms

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Olearia virgata var. divaricata (Cockayne) Allan

Description

Shrub up to 1 m. or more tall, with stiff divaricating quadrangular branchlets; lvs 1-1·5 cm. × c. 4 mm. including petiole c. 2 mm. long, linear-obovate to spathulate-cuneate, coriac., glab. above when mature, clad in ± dense ferruginous rather silky tomentum below; capitula solitary or in fascicles of 2-4, on slender pedicels c. 8 mm. long, clad in ferruginous tomentum; phyll. with ferruginous tomentum on back; florets c. 5-8; achenes with sparse hairs.

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Olearia virgata var. laxiflora (Kirk) Allan

Description

Shrub up to 3 m. tall; with slender divaricating branchlets; lvs linear-obovate, 1-1·5 cm. × 3-4 mm., glab. or nearly so above when mature, below clad in rather silky ferruginous to whitish tomentum; capitula solitary or in fascicles of 2-4 on slender pubescent pedicels up to 2 cm. long; phyll. villous at tips; achenes 1-2 mm. long, pilose above; pappus-hairs 3-5 mm. long.