Olearia tenuifolia

Location & distribution maps

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Etymology:   

• Is named after Johann Gottfried Olearius, a 17th-century German scholar and author of Specimen Florae Hallensis

• The specific epithet (tenuifolia) means "slender"

Flowers

• The flowers are mauve, purple or blue with a yellow disc floret, borne singly or in loose clusters at the end of branches on a peduncle 30 mm long

• Flowering may occur anytime throughout the year and the fruit is a dry, silky achene

Fruit:                            

Leaves:         

• The leaves are linear shaped, 5–35 mm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, pointed at the apex, margins smooth or toothed and distinctly rolled under, both surfaces glandular

Stem & branches: 

Roots:         

Habit:        

• A shrub to 2 m high with scattered leaves arranged alternately along the stem

Habitat:   

• In woodland, mallee and sclerophyll forests mostly in rocky locations

Distribution:                  

• NSW south of Dunedoo and west of Griffith

• In Victoria it is considered rare and grows in the Licola Creek and Valencia Creek area, and the upper Buchan River valley and Pine Mountain district

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy 

  • Olearia tenuifolia was first formally described in 1867 by George Bentham and the description was published in Flora Australiensis

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olearia_tenuifolia (2024)