Olearia algida

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Phylogeny & links to associated information:

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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

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olearia_algida (2023)