''Olearia archeri'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

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and is

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to Tasmania. It is a shrub with small, crowded, narrowly elliptic leaves and white and yellow, daisy-like

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Description

''Olearia archeri'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to , its foliage covered with T-shaped hairs. The leaves are narrowly elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long and pale yellowish brown on the lower side. The heads are arranged in many groups of three on the ends of branchlets, each group on a peduncle up to long. Each head or daisy-like "flower" has 7 to 8 white ray

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, the petal-like ligule long, surrounding 19 to 27 yellow disc florets. Flowering occurs from September to March and the fruit is a brown achene, the pappus with 66–85 bristles.

Taxonomy and naming

''Olearia archeri'' was first formally described in 1989 by Nicholas Sèan Lander in the journal '' Muelleria'' from specimens collected by Ann and David Ratkowsky at Cash's lookout on Eaglehawk Neck in 1973. The specific epithet (''archeri'') honours

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Distribution and habitat

This daisy-bush grows in shady places in open forest on stony hillsides on the east coast of Tasmania, at altitudes up to .

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15587972 Flora of Tasmania archeri Plants described in 1989