Olearia heterocarpa S.T.Blake APNI* 
Description: Shrub to 5 m high.
Leaves alternate, scattered; lamina narrow-elliptic to oblanceolate, 20–110 mm long, 4–18 mm wide; apex acuminate, without a mucro; margins regularly toothed, flat; surfaces discolorous, upper surface glabrous, lower surface grey- or yellow-stellate-hairy; venation reticulate; petiole 3–8 mm long.
Heads terminal, in leafy compound corymbs, peduculate, 10–16 mm diam., peduncle to 5 mm long. Ray florets 4–7, white. Disc florets 3–5, yellow.
Achenes minutely strigose (ray florets) or densely glandular (disc florets); pappus with 17–21 long bristles in 1 series, with or without an outer row of short bristles.
Flowering: May–September
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in wet sclerophyll forest and eucalypt woodland and fringing mallee scrub on obsidian; in the Nightcap and Gibbergunyah Ranges in the Whian Whian area NC; Qld.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by N. S. Lander
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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