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Shawia avicenniifolia Raoul

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. (2025)

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Raoul
Raoul
Raoul, E. 1846: Choix de plantes de la Nouvelle-Zélande: recueillies et décrites. Fortin Masson, Paris.
1846
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Shawia avicenniaefolia
ICN
Shawia avicenniifolia Raoul
species
Shawia avicenniifolia

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Compositae
Shawia
avicenniifolia

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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 avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.

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.

Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.

2n = 108

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Aster avicenniifolius (Raoul) F. Muell.
Aster avicenniifolius (Raoul) F. Muell.
Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. (2025)
Shawia avicenniifolia Raoul
Eurybia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Eurybia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Allan Herbarium (2007)
Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Eurybia Cass.
Eurybia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Eurybia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Eurybia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Eurybia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. (2025)
Shawia avicenniifolia Raoul
Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Allan Herbarium (2007)
Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Olearia Moench
Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Olearia Moench
Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. (2025)
Shawia avicenniifolia Raoul
Shawia avicenniifolia Raoul
Shawia avicenniifolia Raoul
Allan Herbarium (2007)
Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Shawia J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Shawia avicenniifolia Raoul
Shawia avicenniifolia Raoul
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
Shawia avicenniifolia Raoul
Shawia avicenniifolia Raoul
Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. (2025)
Shawia avicenniifolia Raoul

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Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
New Zealand
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Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
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Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
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Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
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Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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Olearia avicenniifolia (Raoul) Hook.f.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
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editorial
Described as avicenniaefolia but amended to avicenniifolia in connor and Edgar 1987 based on ICBN (St Louis) 2000 Art. 60.8.
Connor, H.E.; Edgar, E. 1987: Name changes in the indigenous New Zealand flora, 1960–1986 and Nomina Nova IV, 1983–1986. New Zealand Journal of Botany 25: 115–170.

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scientific name
Names_Plants
12 May 2006
5 January 2026
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