''Olearia cydoniifolia'' 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 cydoniifolia'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to . It has scattered elliptic leaves arranged alternately along the branchlets, long and wide on a petiole up to long. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous but the lower surface is covered with felt-like, silvery hairs. The heads or daisy-like "flowers" are in corymbs near the ends of branchlets and are in diameter on a

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up to long. Each head has six to ten white ray

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surrounding thirteen to seventeen yellow disc florets. Flowering occurs in October and November and the fruit is a silky-hairy

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, the pappus with 40 to 44 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 cydoniifolia'' in his ''

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

Distribution and habitat

''Olearia cydoniifolia'' grows in forest and on the edges of dry rainforest mainly on the est of the

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between the Apsley River and Guyra in New South Wales and in south-eastern Queensland.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15587554 cydoniifolia Flora of Queensland Flora of New South Wales Taxa named by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle Plants described in 1836