Common name: sticky daisy-bush
Olearia elliptica DC. APNI* 
Description: Shrub to 2 m high.
Leaves alternate, scattered; lamina narrow- to broad-elliptic, 20–115 mm long, 5–38 mm wide; apex acute or obtuse or rounded, without a mucro; margins entire, weakly revolute; surfaces discolorous, upper surface viscid and green, lower surface glabrous and pale green; venation pinnate; petiole to 12 mm long.
Heads terminal, in simple corymbs, 11–26 mm diam.; peduncle to 34 mm long. Ray florets 8–23, white. Disc florets 8–30, yellow.
Achenes minutely strigose; pappus with 20 long bristles in 1 or 2 series, with or without an outer row of short bristles.
Flowering: November–May.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in heath, woodland and sclerophyll forest in sandy or dark silty soils in mountainous terrain; widespread, north from Berry.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS, NWP, LHI
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by N. S. Lander
Taxon concept:
| | Key to the subspecies | |
| 1 | Leaves usually elliptical, 2.5–11 cm long, 1–3.5 cm wide; inflorescence usually with 20–50 heads, borne above the leaves; heads 8–10 mm diam. [NSW, Qld]. | subsp. elliptica |
| Leaves oblanceolate, mostly 2.5–3.5(–5) cm long, 1–5(–2) cm wide; inflorescence usually with 8–15 heads, borne level with the leaves; heads 5–8 mm diam. [Lord Howe Island]. | subsp. praetermissa |
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