''Olearia aglossa'', is a shrub in the family

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and is found in mountainous terrain in

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and

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in Australia. It is a small shrub with spreading upright branches and white daisy-like flowers.

Description

''Olearia aglossa'' is a shrub to about high. The ascending branchlets are light brown becoming grey and thickly covered with soft very small T-shaped hairs. Leaves are arranged opposite, are narrow to egg-shaped, long and wide. The leaf upper surface is dark green, flat, smooth and ending in a point. The leaf underside is grey or brownish in colour and densely covered with short, soft, matted hairs. The leaves have a leathery texture, with an obscure network of veins and the margin slightly rolled under. The leaf stalk about long. The flower head is in diameter. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...

is on a stalk up to long. The bracts are narrow, cone shaped long, 4-6 arranged in rows and covered with dense flat hairs, occasionally fringed. The white flower petals are about long with 4 flowers in each cluster. The floret centres are yellow. The fruit is dry, narrowly egg-shaped, one seeded, long. The white flowers appear from December to February.

Taxonomy and naming

This daisy bush was first formally described in 1899 by Ernst Betche and

Joseph Maiden Joseph Henry Maiden (25 April 1859 – 16 November 1925) was a botanist who made a major contribution to knowledge of the Australian flora, especially the genus ''Eucalyptus''. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation when citing ...

who gave it the name ''Olearia alpicola'' var. ''aglossa'' in '' Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'' from specimens collected by William Baeuerlen near

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in 1890. In 1991

Nicholas Lander Nicholas Lander (born April 8, 1952 in Manchester, England) is a consultant to and writer on the restaurant industry. He studied at Manchester Grammar School, Jesus College, Cambridge, and Manchester Business School The specific epithet (''aglossa'') is derived from the

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word ''glossa'' meaning "tongue" with the prefix "a-" meaning "not" or "without", referring to the absence of a distinct ligule on the marginal

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Distribution and habitat

This species in found in the

Southern Tablelands The Southern Tablelands is a geographic area of New South Wales, Australia, located south-west of Sydney and west of the Great Dividing Range. The area is characterised by high, flat country which has generally been extensively cleared and ...

, south from the Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales and is a rare species in the

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. It grows in mountainous locations in dry sclerophyll forest.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15587944 Flora of New South Wales Flora of Victoria (Australia) adenoglossa Plants described in 1899 Taxa named by Ernst Betche Taxa named by Joseph Maiden