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Olearia algida N.A.Wakef.
Family Asteraceae
Common name: Alpine Daisy-bush

Olearia algida N.A.Wakef. APNI*

Description: Shrub to 0.7 m high.

Leaves alternate, crowded; lamina elliptic or narrow-obovate, 1–3 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide; apex acuminate or rounded, without a mucro; margins entire, revolute; surfaces discolorous, upper surface glabrous and dark green, lower surface grey-woolly; venation indistinct; sessile or subsessile.

Heads axillary, solitary, sessile, 7–12 mm diam. Ray florets 2–6, white. Disc florets 2–6, cream.

Achenes silky; pappus with 31–62 bristles in 2 series.


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Flowering: October–April

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in heath and grassland, near swampy areas at higher altitudes in mountainous terrain; south from Mt Gingera (A.C.T.).
NSW subdivisions: ST
Other Australian states: Vic. Tas.
AVH map***

Text by N. S. Lander
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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