| Olearia covenyi | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Olearia |
| Species: | O. covenyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Olearia covenyi | |
Olearia covenyi is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a shrub with scattered egg-shaped leaves, and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.
Olearia covenyi is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 3 m (9.8 ft), its stems densely covered with woolly, yellowish-brown hairs. The leaves arranged in opposite pairs, scattered, egg-shaped, 23–130 mm (0.91–5.12 in) long and 12–50 mm (0.47–1.97 in) wide with the edges rolled down. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous and the lower surface is covered with felt-like, yellowish-brown hairs. The heads or daisy-like "flowers" are arranged on the ends of branchlets and are 16–22 mm (0.63–0.87 in) in diameter on a peduncle up to 11 mm (0.43 in) long. Each head has two or three white ray florets surrounding three or four yellow disc florets. Flowering occurs in November and December and the fruit is a glabrous achene, the pappus with 41–82 long bristles in two rows. [2] [3]
Olearia covenyi was first formally described by Nicholas Sèan Lander in 1991 in the journal Telopea from specimens collected in 1967 by Robert ('Bob') Coveny at Gloucester Tops. [4] The specific epithet (covenyi) honours the collector of the type specimens. [3]
This daisy bush grows in wet forests in mountain areas from near Tenterfield to Barrington Tops and from the eastern side of the Great Dividing Range to Yarrowitch and Nundle in eastern New South Wales. [2] [3]
Olearia argophylla, commonly known as musk daisy-bush, native musk or silver shrub, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub or tree with silvery branchlets, egg-shaped to elliptic leaves, and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.
Olearia axillaris, commonly known as coastal daisy-bush, coast daisy-bush or coastal daisybush is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to coastal areas of Australia. It is an erect, bushy shrub with densely cottony-hairy branchlets, aromatic, linear to narrowly elliptic or narrowly lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and small white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.
Olearia phlogopappa commonly known as the dusty daisy-bush or alpine daisy-bush is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae that is commonly found in eastern New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. It is a small shrub with greyish-green foliage, daisy-like flowers in white, pink or mauve that can be seen from spring to late summer.
Olearia algida, the alpine daisy-bush is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with small, crowded, elliptic to narrow egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and heads of white and cream-coloured, daisy-like flowers.
Olearia astroloba, commonly known as marble daisy-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to a restricted area of Victoria in Australia. It is a greyish shrub with sessile, spatula-shaped leaves and mauve or violet and purple, daisy-like inflorescences.
Olearia canescens is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with scattered elliptic or egg-shaped leaves, and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.
Olearia aglossa, is a shrub in the family Asteraceae and is found in mountainous terrain in New South Wales and Victoria in Australia. It is a small shrub with spreading upright branches and white daisy-like flowers.
Olearia alpicola, commonly known as alpine daisy bush, is a shrub in the family Asteraceae and is found in mountainous terrain in New South Wales and Victoria in Australia. A small shrub with spreading branches and white daisy-like inflorescences.
Olearia brevipedunculata, commonly known as the dusty daisy-bush, is a small shrub with whitish-grey foliage and white daisy-like flowers in summer. Mostly found in Victoria and scattered locations in New South Wales, Australia.
Olearia cordata is an aromatic slender shrub with mostly mauve to dark blue daisy-like flowers endemic to New South Wales. Flowers appear in clusters at the end of branches, leaves are narrow and heart-shaped near the base.
Olearia minor, is a small flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae. It has alternate leaves and white to pale mauve daisy-like flowers from winter to December. It grows in Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, and Victoria.
Olearia oppositifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with egg-shaped to elliptic leaves arranged in opposite pairs, and white and yellow daisy flowers.
Olearia archeri is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a shrub with small, crowded, narrowly elliptic leaves and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.
Olearia arckaringensis, commonly known as Arckaringensis daisy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to a restricted area of northern South Australia. It is a small, compact, rounded shrub with woolly-hairy foliage, coarsely-toothed, elliptic leaves and lavender or white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.
Olearia brachyphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is a densely-branched, aromatic shrub with woolly-hairy stems, oblong to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and small white and pale yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.
Olearia burgessii is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern New South Wales. It is a shrub with scattered elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.
Olearia calcarea, commonly known as limestone daisy bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to southen continental Australia. It is a shrub with egg-shaped or broadly spoon-shaped leaves with toothed edges, and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.
Olearia chrysophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with scattered elliptic leaves, and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.
Olearia cuneifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is an erect shrub with lance-shaped to wedge-shaped leaves and white, daisy-like inflorescences.
Olearia curticoma is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Victoria. It is an erect shrub with glabrous, sticky branchlets, linear leaves and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.