''Olearia bullata'' is a small

divaricating Divaricate means branching, or having separation or a degree of separation. The angle between branches is wide. In botany In botany, the term is often used to describe the branching pattern of plants. Plants are said to be divaricating when the ...

shrub endemic to

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, from the plant family

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. It has small brownish green leaves with a large amount of interlacing twigs, and grows to approximately 3 metres in height.

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bullata ''Bullata'' is a genus of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails. Distribution This is a tropical western Atlantic genus. Habitat Representatives from this genus have been recorded a ...

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