Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Olearia brevipedunculata
Common name
Alpine Daisy-bush
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Heath and shrubland, usually in rocky areas. Kosciuszko National Park and ACT.
Notes
Shrub to about 1 m high. Branchlets and the under-surfaces of the leaves whitish-grey with dense, minute, stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), often yellowish on young shoots and the undersurface of young leaves. Leaves alternating up the stems, crowded, 0.5-1.65 cm long, 2-6.5 mm wide, upper surface grey-green to greyish, dull, stellate hairy, lower surface whitish-grey, occasioally yellowish when young, densely stellate-hairy; venation largely obscured by hairs; margins entire to irregularly and shallowly scalloped, tips blunt. Flower heads with 12–22 white 'petals', and yellow centres. Flower heads 15-22 mm in diameter overall, more or less hemispherical below the 'petals', single, rarely paired, at the ends of the branchlets. Flowers Dec-Feb.
Was Olearia phlogopappa var. repandra.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Olearia~brevipedunculata (accessed 20 April 2021)
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