Olearia canescens (Benth.) Hutch. APNI*
Description: Shrub to 2 m high.
Leaves alternate, scattered; lamina narrow-linear, lanceolate or ovate, 10–60 mm long, 3–21 mm wide; apex acute, finely mucronate; margins entire, flat; upper surface grey or green, becoming glabrous to densely stellate hairy, sessile glands present or absent; lower surface white to yellow, densely but loosely stellate hairy, sessile glands present; venation pinnate, secondary veins veins visible on lower surface.
Heads terminal, in panicles, pedunculate; peduncles 10–70 mm long; involucre 5–10mm wide. Ray florets 8–15, white. Disc florets 7–16, yellow.
Achenes silky, faintly 5- to 6-ribbed, 2–3 mm long; pappus with 35–43 long bristles in 2 series and an outer row of short bristles.
Flowering: February–August
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in woodland and sclerophyll forest; north from the Apsley R. west to the Nandewar Ra.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NT, NWS
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by N. S. Lander; updated by Peter Jobson Oct 2024 Taxon concept: From Messina et al. (2014) A revision of Olearia sect. Astrotriche Australian Systematic Botany 27: 199-240.
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1 | Upper surface of leaves moderately to densely stellate hairy; leaves mostly <10 mm wide; length to width ratio >5 | subsp. canescens |
| Upper surface of leaves becoming glabrous or only sparsely stellate hairy; leaves mostly >10 mm wide; length to width ratio <5 | subsp. discolor |
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