Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.

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Name scientific

Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 127 (1864)

Preferred name

Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.

Taxonomy reference

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

Linked name

Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

(Raoul) Hook.f.

Original authors

Raoul

Combination authors

Hook.f.

Publication place

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.

Year published

1864

Publication page

127

Orthography

Olearia avicenniaefolia

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Shawia avicenniifolia Raoul

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Olearia avicenniifolia

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Compositae

Genus

Olearia

Species

avicenniifolia

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

mountain akeake

Language of use: Māori

Akeake

Synonyms

Associations

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Associated organism

Association source

is host of

Frullania anomala E.A.Hodgs.

CHR (1 records from New Zealand.)

is host of

Ileostylus micranthus (Hook.f.) Tiegh.

CHR (1 records from New Zealand.)

is host of

Notogrammitis heterophylla (Labill.) Parris

CHR (1 records from New Zealand.)

Descriptions

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

Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.

Description

Shrub or tree up to 6 m. tall; branchlets angular, densely clad in white tomentum. Lvs 5-10 × 3-5 cm. including petiole up to 5 mm. long, elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, entire, subacute, coriac., glab. above when mature, clad below in dense appressed white to buff tomentum, margins flat. Corymbs much-branched on long peduncles; pedicels slender. Capitula ∞, up to 6 mm. long; phyll. few, imbricate, glab. to pubescent, forming a narrow involucre. Florets 2-3 per capitulum, rarely more; ray-florets 0-2. Achenes pilose.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.