Olearia mooneyi

Last updated

Olearia mooneyi
Olearia mooneyi herbarium specimen.jpg
Herbarium specimen
Scientific classification Red Pencil Icon.png
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Olearia
Species:
O. mooneyi
Binomial name
Olearia mooneyi

Olearia mooneyi, commonly known as pumpkin bush, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Lord Howe Island. It is a shrub or small tree with hairy, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white and pale yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.

Contents

Description

Olearia mooneyi is a densely-foliaged shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) or a tree to 4 m (13 ft). Its leaves are arranged alternately, crowded, narrowly to broadly elliptic or egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 40–100 mm (1.6–3.9 in) long and 15–35 mm (0.59–1.38 in) on a petiole 3–12 mm (0.12–0.47 in) long. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous, green and shiny, the lower surface pale brown and covered with fine woolly hairs. The heads or daisy-like "flowers" are arranged in dense corymbs and are about 8 mm (0.31 in) in diameter, the involucre about 3 mm (0.12 in) long and softly-hairy. Each head has about twelve white ray florets, the ligules about 6 mm (0.24 in) long, surrounding about eight pale yellow disc florets. Flowering occurs from November to January and the fruit is a hairy brown achene, the pappus with about twenty bristles. [2] [3]

Taxonomy

Pumpkin bush was first formally described in 1874 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Aster mooneyi in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by "Lind" and Fullagar on the summits of Mount Lidgbird and Mount Gower. [4] [5] In 1896, William Hemsley changed the name to Olearia mooneyi. [6] The specific epithet honours Thomas Mooney (1842–1873), an early settler of Lord Howe Island who was interested in its plants. Mooney arrived on the island in 1867 but was lost at sea in 1873. [3] [7]

Distribution and habitat

Olearia mooneyi is endemic to Lord Howe Island on mountains where it is the dominant tree above 750 m (2,460 ft). [2] [3]

Related Research Articles

<i>Olearia teretifolia</i> Species of plant

Olearia teretifolia, commonly known as cypress daisy-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a slender, erect to spreading shrub with more or less sessile, linear leaves pressed against the stem, and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.

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

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.

<i>Olearia axillaris</i> Species of plant

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.

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

Olearia ramulosa, commonly known as twiggy daisy-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with narrowly elliptic, linear or narrowly egg-shaped leaves, and pale blue, mauve or white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.

<i>Olearia stuartii</i> Species of plant

Olearia stuartii is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic arid parts of inland Australia. It is compact, spreading shrub or undershrub with lance-shaped leaves and blue to mauve and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.

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

Olearia viscidula, commonly known as the viscid daisy bush or wallaby weed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is a shrub with scattered narrow elliptic or egg-shaped leaves that are paler on the lower surface, and panicles of white flowers arranged in leaf axils.

<i>Negria</i> Genus of trees

Negria is a plant genus in the family Gesneriaceae. Its only species is Negria rhabdothamnoides, commonly known as the pumpkin tree. It is related to Fieldia and Depanthus.

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

Olearia asterotricha, commonly known as rough daisy-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. A tall shrub with white, mauve or blue daisy like flowers growing from the Blue Mountains in New South Wales to western Victoria, Australia.

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

Olearia homolepis is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a shrub with linear leaves and white or blue and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.

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

Olearia ballii, commonly known as mountain daisy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Lord Howe Island. It is a dense shrub with crowded linear leaves and small, purplish and white, daisy-like inflorescences.

Melicope contermina is a species of shrub or small tree in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to Lord Howe Island. It has trifoliate leaves and white flowers borne in leaf axils in panicles of nine to fifteen flowers.

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

Olearia iodochroa, commonly known as the violet daisy bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a shrub with branchlets densely covered with whitish hairs, narrowly egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white or mauve, and cream-coloured, yellow or blue, daisy-like inflorescences.

Olearia adenolasia, commonly known as woolly-glandular daisy-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a small upright shrub with sticky leaves and blue-purple or white daisy flowers.

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

Olearia magniflora, commonly known as splendid daisy-bush, is a small shrub with clusters of deep mauve to purple flowers.

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

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.

<i>Olearia exiguifolia</i> Species of Asteraceae

Olearia exiguifolia commonly known as small-leaved daisy bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-western Australia. It is an erect or straggly shrub with broadly egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.

Olearia cassiniae is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.7–1.8 m and produces white daisy-like inflorescences, mostly between February and April. The species was first formally described in 1865 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Aster cassiniae in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by George Maxwell. In 1867, George Bentham changed the name to Olearia cassiniae in Flora Australiensis. The specific epithet (cassiniae) is a reference to the genus Cassinia.

<i>Olearia ferresii</i> Species of Asteraceae

Olearia ferresii is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to central Australia. It is an erect, aromatic shrub with elliptic to lance-shaped leaves and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.

Olearia gravis is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with elliptic or egg-shaped leaves and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.

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

Olearia nernstii is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with scattered egg-shaped to elliptic leaves with toothed or prickly edges, and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.

References

  1. "Olearia mooneyi". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 Green, Peter S. "Olearia mooneyi". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 "Olearia mooneyi". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  4. "Aster mooneyi". APNI. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  5. von Mueller, Ferdinand (1875). Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. Vol. 8. Melbourne: Victorian Government Printer. p. 144. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  6. "Olearia mooneyi". APNI. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  7. Blair, David. "Lord Howe Island" (PDF). Australian National Placenames Survey. pp. 72, 77. Retrieved 30 May 2022.