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Olearia glandulosa (Labill.) Benth.
Family Asteraceae
Common name: Swamp Daisy Bush

Olearia glandulosa (Labill.) Benth. APNI*

Description: Narrow erect shrub to 1.5 m high.

Leaves sticky to touch, alternate, scattered; lamina narrow-linear, 5–52 mm long, 1–2 mm wide; apex narrow-acute, without a mucro; margins tightly rolled with prominent glandular swellings making the leaves look finely crenate; surfaces both dark green, both glabrous, blistered; venation indistinct; sessile or subsessile.

Heads terminal, in compound corymbs, pedunculate, 6–12 mm diam.; peduncle to 14 mm long. Ray florets 15–22, white. Disc florets 16–23, yellow.

Achenes silky; pappus with 35–54 bristles in 2 series.


Fruit
Photo Andrew Orme

Herbarium
Sheet

Flowering: November–June.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in woodland or wet heath, in moist gullies, swamps and along river banks, from Mittagong south to Victoria.
NSW subdivisions: SC, CT, ST, CC
Other Australian states: Tas. W.A. S.A.
AVH map***

Text by N. S. Lander: updated Louisa Murray 18/4/2012
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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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