Olearia ×macrodonta Baker

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Name scientific

Olearia ×macrodonta Baker, Gard. Chron. 21: 604 (1884)

Preferred name

Olearia ×macrodonta Baker

Taxonomy reference

Heenan, P.B. 2005: Olearia quinquevulnera (Asteraceae: Astereae), a new species name from New Zealand, and observations on its relationships in Olearia. New Zealand Journal of Botany 43: 753–766.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Baker

Original authors

Baker

Publication place

Baker, J.G. 1884: New Garden Plants: Olearia macrodonta. The Gardeners' Chronicle 21: 604.

Year published

1884

Publication page

604

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Olearia ×macrodonta Baker

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Olearia ×macrodonta

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Compositae

Genus

Olearia

Species

×macrodonta

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Language of use: Māori

Synonyms

Hybridisation

Hybrid name

Olearia ilicifolia Hook.f. × Olearia arborescens (G.Forst.) Cockayne & Laing

Descriptions

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

Olearia ×macrodonta Baker

Description

Shrub or tree up to 6 m. tall, with musky fragrance; branchlets slender, with appressed tomentum. Lvs 5-10 × 2.5-4 cm. including petiole c. 8 mm. long, subobliquely ovate-oblong to oblong, acute to acuminate, rounded to truncate at base, coriac., glab. above when mature, clad in appressed white tomentum below; margins undulate, closely coarsely sharply dentate-serrate. Capitula ∞, up to 1 cm. long, in large corymbs; phyll. few, narrow, pubescent to villous; florets 8-12, rays short, narrow. Achenes grooved, pubescent to pilose; pappus-hairs unequal, dull white to reddish.