Olearia hectori Hook.F.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Olearia

Characteristics

Shrub up to 5 m. tall; branchlets slender, grooved, glab. or nearly so with dark reddish brown bark. Lvs in opp. fascicles of 2-4 on short branchlets, 2-5 × 0·5-2 cm., on slender petioles up to 5 mm. long, narrow-obovate to oblong-ovate or broad-obovate, submembr., glab. above when mature, clad in thin silvery tomentum below; margins flat, entire. Capitula 5 × 5 mm., in fascicles of 2-5 on slender drooping silky-hairy pedicels up to 1·5 cm. long; florets 20-25, ray-florets up to 15, narrow. Phyll. in 2 series, laxly imbricate, spreading, oblong, obtuse, pilose on back. Achenes 1-2 mm. long, compressed, striate, pilose, narrow-obovate in outline; pappus-hairs 3-5 mm. long.
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Mature height (meter) 5.0
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Germination duration (days) 30 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 21
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Images

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Distribution

Olearia hectori world distribution map, present in New Zealand

Conservation status

Olearia hectori threat status: Endangered

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:234834-1
WFO ID wfo-0000024168
COL ID 6SJ8F
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Synonyms

Olearia hectori Aster hectori