Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Olearia stenophylla

Flowering branches. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

A Daisy-bush

Family

Asteraceae 

Where found

Woodland between 1200 and 1400 m altitude. Kosciuszko National Park.

Notes

Shrub to 1.2 m high. Younger stems, undersurfaces of leaves, and flower stalks densely covered with woolly tufts of white to pale fawn stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, 4–8 cm long, 1–5 mm wide, upper surface hairless at maturity with scattered warts, lustrous, with impressed venation, margins curved to rolled down, tips pointed. Flower heads with 9–14 'petals', white (rarely pale mauve or lilac), each 4–6 mm long, and yellow centres. Flower heads in clusters at the tops of the main branches and short lateral branches. Flowers late November to mid December.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Olearia~stenophylla   (accessed 29 January, 2021)