Olearia fragrantissima

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Olearia fragrantissima
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Olearia
Species:
O. fragrantissima
Binomial name
Olearia fragrantissima
Petrie

Olearia fragrantissima is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is found only in New Zealand. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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Olearia, most commonly known as daisy-bush, is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae, the largest of the flowering plant families in the world. Olearia are found in Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand. The genus includes herbaceous plants, shrubs and small trees. The latter are unusual among the Asteraceae and are called tree daisies in New Zealand. All bear the familiar daisy-like composite flowerheads in white, pink, mauve or purple.

<i>Olearia lyallii</i> Species of tree

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<i>Olearia angulata</i> Species of flowering plant

Olearia angulata is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is found only in New Zealand.

<i>Olearia chathamica</i> Species of flowering plant

Olearia chathamica is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is found only in New Zealand.

<i>Olearia hectorii</i> Species of flowering plant

Olearia hectorii is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae. Its common names include deciduous tree daisy and Hector's tree daisy. It is endemic to New Zealand.

Olearia polita is a species of flowering plant in the aster family. It is found only in New Zealand.

<i>Olearia traversiorum</i> Species of flowering plant

Olearia traversiorum, the Chatham Island akeake, or Chatham Island tree daisy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to the Chatham Islands of New Zealand. It is also known by the synonym O. traversii.

<i>Olearia lirata</i> Species of flowering plant

Olearia lirata, the snowy daisy-bush or dusty daisy-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It occurs in moist forest and scrub in New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania.

<i>Olearia algida</i> Species of shrub

Olearia algida, the alpine daisy bush or mountain daisy bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a shrub to 1 metre high with crowded leaves. These are dark green above and woolly underneath and have revolute edges. The flower heads have 2 to 6 white ray florets. The species was first formally described in The Victorian Naturalist in 1956 by Norman Wakefield. It occurs near swampy areas within heath and grassland in high altitude areas of south-eastern New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania.

<i>Olearia megalophylla</i> Species of shrub

Olearia megalophylla, the large-leaf daisy bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a shrub up to 2 metres high with scattered leaves. These are dark green above, woolly underneath, and are 20 to 120 mm long and 6 to 28 mm wide. The flower heads have 5 to 9 white ray florets and 9 to 14 yellow disc florets. The species was first formally described by Ferdinand von Mueller in Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania in 1859 and named Eurybia megalophylla. In 1865, he placed the species in the genus Aster and finally in Olearia in 1867. It occurs in moist sclerophyll forest in south-eastern New South Wales and Victoria.

Stigmella fulva is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in New Zealand.

<i>Olearia astroloba</i> Species of shrub

Olearia astroloba, commonly known as Marble daisy-bush, is a rare shrub species in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to the state of Victoria in Australia.

<i>Olearia paniculata</i> Species of shrub

Olearia paniculata, commonly called akiraho, is a species of shrub or tree in the family Asteraceae, found only in New Zealand. The tree can grow to 6 metres high, and has yellow-green, oval-shaped leaves, with white undersides and wavy margins.

<i>Olearia odorata</i> Species of shrub

Olearia odorata, the scented tree daisy, is a small divaricating shrub endemic to New Zealand, from the plant family Asteraceae. It has small light green leaves with a large amount of interlacing twigs and grows to around 2–4m in height. In spring O. odorata produces many small white flowers.

<i>Pasiphila cotinaea</i> Species of moth

Pasiphila cotinaea is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. It is endemic to New Zealand. Its larvae feed off Olearia species and the adult moth can be seen on the wing from November to April. This species is regarded as rare.

<i>Olearia homolepis</i> Species of flowering plant

Olearia homolepis is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, endemic to Western Australia. It grows to between 0.2 and 1 metre high. White or blue flowers appear between July and November in the species' native range.

Atomotricha colligatella, the Olearia Skeletoniser, is a moth of the family Oecophoridae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1864. It is found in New Zealand.

<i>Stathmopoda campylocha</i> Species of moth

Stathmopoda campylocha is a species of moth in the family Stathmopodidae. It is endemic to New Zealand. It is classified as critically endangered by the Department of Conservation.

Chrysocraspeda olearia is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1857. It is found in oriental regions such as India, Sri Lanka, and some Far-East Asian countries.

References

  1. de Lange, P.J. 1998. Olearia fragrantissima. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 July 2007.