''Olearia burgessii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern New South Wales. It is a shrub with scattered elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.

Description

''Olearia burgessii'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to . It has scattered elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous and the lower surface is covered with woolly, greyish hairs. The heads are arranged on the ends of branchlets and are in diameter on a

peduncle Peduncle may refer to: *Peduncle (botany), a stalk supporting an inflorescence, which is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed *Peduncle (anatomy), a stem, through which a mass of tissue is attached to a body **Peduncle (art ...

up to long. Each head or daisy-like "flower" has a bell-shaped involucre wide at the base, and eight to eleven ray florets, the petal-like

ligule A ligule (from "strap", variant of ''lingula'', from ''lingua'' "tongue") is a thin outgrowth at the junction of leaf and leafstalk of many grasses (Poaceae) and sedges. A ligule is also a strap-shaped extension of the corolla, such as that of a ...

white and long surrounding six to ten yellow disc florets. Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is a silky-hairy

achene An achene (; ), also sometimes called akene and occasionally achenium or achenocarp, is a type of simple dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants. Achenes are monocarpellate (formed from one carpel) and indehiscent (they do not ope ...

, the pappus with 26 to 40 long bristles.

Taxonomy

''Olearia burgessii'' was first formally described in 1991 by Nicholas Sean Lander in the journal '' Telopea'' based on plant material collected by the Rev. Colin Ernest Bryce Hawthorn Burgess near Thirlmere in 1959. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

(''burgessii'') honours the collector of the

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specimens.

Distribution and habitat

This daisy-bush grows in forest mainly in the Burragorang- Picton area and near Tumbarumba, in south-eastern New South Wales.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15585295 burgessii Flora of New South Wales Taxa named by Neville Grant Walsh Plants described in 1991