Common name: Slender Daisy Bush
Olearia passerinoides subsp. passerinoides (Turcz.) Benth. APNI* 
Description: Shrub to 2 m high.
Leaves alternate, scattered; lamina linear, 2.5–25 mm long, 0.7–1.5 mm wide; apex acute or rounded, without a mucro; margins entire, flat; surfaces concolorous, both viscid; venation indistinct; sessile or subsessile.
Heads terminal, solitary or clustered, sessile or subsessile, 11–23 mm diam.; peduncle to 14 mm long. Ray florets 5–8, white or pale mauve. Disc florets 4–13, yellow.
Achenes silky; pappus with 33–47 bristles in 1 series.
Flowering: throughout year.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in mallee, sclerophyll forest and open shrubland; south from Nymagee.
NSW subdivisions: SWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Vic. W.A. S.A.
Text by N. S. Lander
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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