Olearia myrsinoides

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information:

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Plant  information

Common name:      Silky daisy-bush 

• Also, blush daisy bush

Conservation status:   unknown

Etymology:   

Flowers:                  

• The heads are arranged in leafy panicles in leaf axils and on the ends of branches on a peduncle up to 32 mm long

• The heads are 13–21 mm wide with a conical involucre 4–6 mm long

• Each head has two to four white ray florets, the ligule 6–8 mm long, surrounding three or four yellow or mauve disc florets

• Flowering occurs from March to November 

Fruit:                         

• A glabrous achene

• The pappus 5–8 mm long

Leaves:         

• The leaves are arranged alternately

• Elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base

• Has toothed edges

• 4–30 mm long and 3–22 mm wide 

• The upper surface of the leaves is dark green and glabrous

• The lower side covered with whitish hairs

Stem & branches:  

•  Typically grows to a height of 0.8–1.5 m

• Its branchlets covered with whitish hairs

Roots:         

• x

Habit:        

•  It is a spreading shrub 

Habitat:   

• Grows in forest, woodland, grassland, and swampy areas 

Distribution:                  

•  Endemic to south-eastern Australia

• Eastern NSW, southern Victoria and Tasmania

Additional notes:        

• Taxonomy

  • Silky daisy-bush was first formally described in 1806 by Jacques Labillardière, who gave it the name Aster myrsinoides in his Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen

  • In 1867, George Bentham changed the name to Olearia myrsinoides in Flora Australiensis