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Olearia canescens (Benth.) Hutch.
Family Asteraceae
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.


Herbarium
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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
AVH map***

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.

 Key to the subspecies 
1Upper surface of leaves moderately to densely stellate hairy; leaves mostly <10 mm wide; length to width ratio >5subsp. canescens
Upper surface of leaves becoming glabrous or only sparsely stellate hairy; leaves mostly >10 mm wide; length to width ratio <5subsp. discolor

APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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