Olearia virgata var. rugosa G.Simpson

Details

Name scientific

Olearia virgata var. rugosa G.Simpson, Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 75: 199 (1945)

Preferred name

Shawia bullata (Wilson & Garn.–Jones) Saldivia & Nicol

Taxonomy reference

Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. 2025: Reinstatement, broader circumscription, and infrageneric classification of Shawia (Astereae, Celmisiinae), a large woody genus endemic to Australasia. Phytoneuron 2025-49: 1–43 (online). (Published online: 11 September 2025)

Nomenclature

Original authors

G.Simpson

Authors

G.Simpson

Publication place

Simpson, G. 1945: Notes on Some New Zealand Plants and Descriptions of New Species (No. 4). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 75: 187–202.

Year published

1945

Publication page

199

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Olearia virgata var. rugosa G.Simpson

Taxonomic rank

var.

Canonical form

Olearia virgata var. rugosa

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Compositae

Genus

Olearia

Species

virgata

Descriptions

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

Olearia virgata var. rugosa G.Simpson

Description

Shrub up to 2 m. tall with slender, spreading, pubescent, quadrangular branchlets; lvs fascicled, 5-8 × 1-2 mm., linear to narrow-obovate; glab. or nearly so and rugose above when mature, below clad in soft white tomentum, margins strongly revolute; capitula solitary or in fascicles of 2-4, on very short pubescent pedicels; phyll. pubescent; florets c. 10 per capitulum; achenes papillose-pubescent.

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Olearia virgata var. rugosa G.Simpson

Olearia virgata var. rugosa G.Simpson

Allan Herbarium (2007)

Olearia bullata H.D.Wilson & Garn.-Jones

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

Olearia virgata var. rugosa G.Simpson

Olearia virgata var. rugosa G.Simpson

Allan, H.H. (1961)

Olearia virgata var. rugosa G.Simpson

Olearia virgata var. rugosa G.Simpson

Heads, M. (1998)

Olearia bullata H.D.Wilson & Garn.-Jones

Olearia virgata var. rugosa G.Simpson

Olearia virgata var. rugosa G.Simpson

Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. (2025)

Shawia bullata (Wilson & Garn.–Jones) Saldivia & Nicol

Collections

Determined name

Country

Geographic region

Indicative databased records

Olearia virgata var. rugosa G.Simpson

New Zealand

Canterbury Land District

Olearia virgata var. rugosa G.Simpson

New Zealand

Otago Land District

Metadata

Record id

59ad8abc-5e7c-43cc-ab5e-0c02755a2cc9

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Plants

Date added

13 March 2002

Date last updated

6 January 2026

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