''Olearia cordata'' is an aromatic slender shrub with mostly mauve to dark blue daisy-like flowers

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. Flowers appear in clusters at the end of branches, leaves are narrow and heart-shaped near the base.

Description

''Olearia cordata'' is a shrub to high. The branchlets and leaves are thickly covered in hairs and glands that are sticky and rough. The leaves grow sparsely and alternately are long and wide and obscure veins. The leaves are narrowly egg-shaped becoming heart shaped near the base and tapering to either a sharp point or rounded. The leaf margin is entire with a rolled edge. The single flower head consists of a cluster of 10-18 mauve to dark blue daisy-like flowers are up in diameter on a peduncle long. The flower centre is yellow. The fruit is smooth with several long hairs. Flowers from November to February.

Taxonomy and naming

''Olearia cordata'' was first formally described by Nicholas Sèan Lander in 1975 and published in the journal '' Telopea''. The

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''(cordata)'' is derived from the

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word ''cordatus'' meaning "heart-shaped".

Distribution and habitat

This species is

to New South Wales in sparsely scattered locations from

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mostly in National Parks. Grows in open scrubland on sandstone ridges in dry sclerophyll forest.

Conservation status

''Olearia cordata'' is listed as "vulnerable" in New South Wales by the Office of Environment and Heritage and under the Australian Government ''

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''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15586728 cordata Asterales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Plants described in 1975