Olearia colensoi Hook.F.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Olearia

Characteristics

Shrub up to 3 m. tall; branchlets stout, clad in white to buff tomentum. Lvs 8-20 × 3-6 cm. including short petiole up to 5 mm. long, obovate to obovate-oblong, acute to subacute, coriac., irregularly serrate, glab. above when mature and ± rugose, clad in dense white to buff or fulvous appressed tomentum below. Racemes up to 20 cm. long, with lanceolate tomentose bracts subtending pedicels. Capitula 2-3 cm. diam.; phyll. in 1-2 series, linear, glab. or nearly so, up to 1 cm. long; florets all tubular, ♀ in one row; achenes compressed, pilose, 4 mm. long, grooved; pappus-hairs up to 6 mm. long, dull white.
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Mature height (meter) 3.0
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Germination duration (days) 30 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 21
Germination luminosity light
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Images

Olearia colensoi unspecified picture

Distribution

Olearia colensoi world distribution map, present in New Zealand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:234789-1
WFO ID wfo-0000090367
COL ID 493T8
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Eurybia colensoi Olearia colensoi Aster colensoi Aster colensoi Olearia colensoi var. colensoi

Lower taxons

Olearia colensoi var. argentea