Olearia ericoides

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Olearia ericoides
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In the Wielangta Forest Reserve
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Olearia
Species:
O. ericoides
Binomial name
Olearia ericoides
Synonyms [1]

Olearia ericoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a slender shrub with oblong leaves and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.

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Description

Olearia ericoides is a slender, small to medium-sized, glabrous shrub. The stems and leaves are shining and sticky, the leaves oblong to narrowly linear, mostly 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) long and sessile with the edges rolled under. The heads or daisy-like "flowers" are arranged singly on the ends of long and short branchlets and are sessile. The fruit is a reddish achene with rigid bristles. [2] [3]

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1856 by Joachim Steetz who gave it the name Eurybia ericoides in Johann Georg Christian Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected by Theodor Siemssen near Hobart in 1837. [4] [5]

In 1956, Norman Wakefield changed the name to Olearia ericoides in The Victorian Naturalist . [6]

The specific epithet (ericoides) means " Erica -like". [7]

Distribution and habitat

Olearia ericoides grows on dry hillsides in the south and south-east of Tasmania. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Olearia ericoides". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  2. Wakefield, Norman A. (1956). "Flora of Victoria: New species and other additions - 10". The Victorian Naturalist. 73 (6): 97. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  3. Hooker, Joseph Dalton (1856). The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae. Vol. 3. London: Reeve Brothers. p. 180. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  4. "Eurybia ericoides". APNI. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  5. Steetz, Joachim (1845). Lehmann, Johann G.C. (ed.). Plantae Preissianae. Vol. 1. Hamburg. p. 423. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  6. "Olearia ericoides". APNI. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  7. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 193. ISBN   9780958034180.
  8. Jordan, Greg. "Olearia ericoides". University of Tasmania. Retrieved 4 April 2022.