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Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.

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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
(Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
1864
128
ICN
Eurybia virgata Hook.f.
species
Olearia virgata

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Compositae
Olearia
virgata

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

Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.

Slender ± divaricate shrub up to c. 2.5 m. tall; branches slender, ± virgate; branchlets 4-angled, sulcate, elongate, opp., ± divaricate, pilose when young. Lvs in small opp. fascicles or occ. paired, 5-10-(20) × 3-5-(8) mm., entire, obovate to narrow-obovate, obtuse, subcoriac., glab. or nearly so above, clad in soft appressed white to buff tomentum below; petioles c. 1 mm. long. Capitula ± 8-9 mm. diam., in opp. fascicles or paired, on slender bracted or nude tomentose pedicels. Phyll. short, woolly-tomentose, in 2-(4) series. Ray-florets few, ligulate; disk-florets 6-8. Pappus-hairs white to reddish; achenes puberulous.
Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.

2n = 108

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Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Allan Herbarium (2007)
Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Olearia Moench
Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Olearia Moench
Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Heenan, P.B. (2001)
Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. (2025)
Shawia virgata (Hook.f.) Sch.Bip.

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Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
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Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
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Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
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Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
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Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
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Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
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Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
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Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
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Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
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4493278d-b1f5-4a02-99ad-61c41198b562
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
6 January 2026
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