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Olearia ×capillaris Buchanan

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Olearia ×capillaris Buchanan, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 3: 212 (1870 [1871])
Olearia ×capillaris Buchanan

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Buchanan
Buchanan
1870
1871
212
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Olearia ×capillaris Buchanan
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Olearia ×capillaris

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×capillaris

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Olearia arborescens (G.Forst.) Cockayne & Laing × Olearia quinquevulnera Heenan

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Olearia ×capillaris Buchanan

Shrub. Leaves alternate, lamina 10–44 × 7–32 mm, broadly elliptic, ovate, or ± orbicular, with silver or cream T-hairs; abaxial surface densely hairy; adaxial surface green, sparsely hairy to glabrate; midrib and main lateral veins prominent on both surfaces, 4–14 lateral veins; base attenuate to obtuse; margin with up to 13 teeth; apex subacute to obtuse; petiole 3.0–14.1 mm long, moderately hairy. Capitula (2–)5–13 per corymb; inflorescence moderately to densely covered with appressed Thairs, pedicels up to 20.0 mm long. Involucral bracts 15–23, 3–4-seriate, abaxial surface of outer bracts with hairs on midrib, abaxial surface of inner bracts glabrous, adaxial surfaces usually glabrous; apices acute to subobtuse, usually with a distinct tuft of hairs; margins fimbriate or hyaline-fimbriate in distal part; bases cuneate to attenuate; outer bracts up to 1.4–1.7 × 0.4–0.5 mm, broadly elliptic to shortly lanceolate; inner bracts up to 3.5–4.1 × 0.3–0.7 mm, lanceolate. Florets 11–13 per capitulum. Female florets 6–8, limb white, 4.5–4.6 × 0.7–1.2 mm, glabrous; tube 2.2–2.3 mm, sparsely hairy. Hermaphrodite florets 4–5, actinomorphic; corolla usually with glandular and eglandular hairs near apex; lobes 0.7–0.8 × 0.4–0.5 mm, narrowly triangular, deflexed at maturity, white; tube 3.1–3.3 mm long, sparsely hairy. Anthers 1.9–2.0 mm long, apex apiculate, tails c. 0.2 mm long; filaments 1.1–1.2 mm long, glabrous. Style of hermaphrodite and female florets 3.4–4.8 mm long; style arms 0.8–1.1 mm long. Ovary 1.2–1.7 × c. 0.4 mm, moderately covered with eglandular hairs; pappus bristles scabrid, 2.6– 3.9 mm long. Cypsela narrowly oblong, somewhat compressed and angular in section, 2.1–2.3 mm long; base obtuse; ribs 5, narrow, raised; moderately covered in white antrorse eglandular hairs. Pappus bristles scabrid, 2.7–4.1 mm long, pale orange-yellow. FL Nov–Feb; FT Jan–Feb.

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Olearia ×capillaris Buchanan
Olearia ×capillaris Buchanan
Olearia ×capillaris Buchanan
Olearia ×capillaris Buchanan
Olearia ×capillaris Buchanan
Olearia ×capillaris Buchanan
Olearia ×capillaris Buchanan
Olearia arborescens var. capillaris (Buchanan) Kirk
Olearia ×capillaris Buchanan
Olearia capillaris Buchanan
Olearia ×capillaris Buchanan
Olearia capillaris Buchanan
Olearia ×capillaris Buchanan
Olearia nitida var. capillaris (Buchanan) Kirk
Olearia ×capillaris Buchanan
Olearia nitida var. capillaris (Buchanan) Kirk
Olearia ×capillaris Buchanan

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Olearia ×capillaris Buchanan
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13 September 2005
27 June 2022
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