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

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and is

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to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with scattered elliptic leaves, and white and yellow, daisy-like

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Description

''Olearia chrysophylla'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to . It has scattered elliptic leaves arranged in opposite pairs, long and wide on a petiole up to long, the edges of the leaves sometimes with indistinct teeth. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous but the lower surface is covered with felt-like, pale brown hairs. The heads or daisy-like "flowers" are arranged on the ends of branchlets and are in diameter on a peduncle up to long. Each head has four to seven white ray

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surrounding twelve to fourteen yellow disc florets. Flowering occurs from November to January and the fruit is a glabrous

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, the pappus with 73 to 85 bristles in two rows.

Taxonomy

This daisy bush was first formally described in 1836 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle who gave it the name ''Eurybia chrysophylla'' in his ''

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''. In 1867 George Bentham changed that name to ''Olearia chrysophylla'' in '' Flora Australiensis''. The

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(''chrysophylla'') means "golden-leaved".

Distribution and habitat

''Olearia chrysophylla'' grows in forest, usually at higher altitudes from south-east Queensland to the New England National Park in New South Wales, sometimes as far inland as Jenolan Caves and Bathurst.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15586071 chrysophylla Flora of Queensland Flora of New South Wales Taxa named by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle Plants described in 1836