Olearia algida
Alpine Daisy-bush
Alpine Daisy-bush
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Overview:
Olearia algida, the alpine daisy-bush is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australi
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
Common name: Alpine Daisy-bush
Conservation status: ...
Etymology:
Is named after Johann Gottfried Olearius, a 17th-century German scholar and author of Specimen Florae Hallensis
The specific epithet (algida) is a Latin word meaning "cold"
Flowers
The daisy-like capitula are arranged singly on the ends of short side-branches and are 7–12 mm in diameter
There are two to six white petal-like ray florets with ligules 2.5–5.5 mm long, surrounding two to six yellow disc florets
Flowering mainly occurs from October to February
Fruit:
The cypselae are about 1.5 mm long with bristles about 3 mm long
Leaves:
The leaves are arranged alternately and crowded, elliptic to narrow egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 1–3 mm long and 0.5–1 mm wide
The edges are rolled under, the upper surface glabrous but the lower surface woolly-hairy
Stem & branches:
Has cottony-hairy young branchlets
Roots:
Habit:
A bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.7–1 m and has cottony-hairy young branchlets
Habitat:
Heath, shrubland and grassland near swampy places in alpine and subalpine areas
Distribution:
South from Mount Gingera in the Australian Capital Territory, through southern NSW to eastern Victoria and Tasmania
Additional notes:
Taxonomy
Olearia algida was first formally described in 1956 by Norman Arthur Wakefield in The Victorian Naturalist
Specimens were collected by A.J. Tadgell on Mount Bogong in 1922
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