Olearia phlogopappa subsp. continentalis Messina APNI* Description: Tall bushy shrub up to 2 m high.
Leaves more or less ovate, margins irregularly lobed; upper surface green, retaining stellate hairs, sessile glands present.
Flowering: October – December
Distribution and occurrence: Scattered occurences in eastern NSW, widespread in Victoria. Grows in damp montane and foothill forest.
NSW subdivisions: NT, ST
Other Australian states: Vic.
Text by Louisa Murray
Taxon concept: Messina et al. (2014) A revision of Olearia sect. Asterotriche (Asteraceae: Asterae) Australian Systematic Botany 27, 199–240.
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