Olearia aglossa (Maiden & Betche) Lander APNI* Synonyms: Olearia sp. A sensu Jacobs & Pickard (1981) APNI*
Olearia alpicola var. aglossa Maiden & Betche APNI*
Description: Shrub to 2.5 m high.
Leaves opposite, scattered; lamina ovate, 24–90 mm long, 8–27 mm wide; apex acute and finely mucronate; margins entire, revolute; surfaces discolorous, upper surface glabrous and green, lower surface grey-tomentose; venation reticulate; petiole to 12 mm long.
Heads terminal, in simple corymbs, pedunculate, 4–20 mm diam.; peduncle to 25 mm long. Ray florets 2–4, mostly filiform, rarely conspicuously ligulate, white. Disc florets 2–4, yellow.
Achenes glabrous or silky apically; pappus with 61–85 pink bristles in 2 series.
Flowering: January–February
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in dry sclerophyll forest in mountainous terrain, south from Cabrammura (Kosciuszko National Park).
NSW subdivisions: ST
Other Australian states: Vic.
Text by N. S. Lander
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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