Olearia lepidophylla
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Speciesbox
|image = Olearia lepidophylla.jpg
|image_caption = Near Markaranka
|genus = Olearia
|species = lepidophylla
|authority = (Pers.) Benth.{{cite web|title=Olearia lepidophylla|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/104934|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=18 May 2022}}
|synonyms =
- Aster lepidophyllus Pers.
- Aster microphyllus Labill. nom. illeg.
- Diplostephium lepidophyllum (Pers.) Nees
- Eurybia lepidophylla (Pers.) DC.
- Eurybia lepidophylla var. lawrencei Hook.f.
- Eurybia lepidophylla var. lawrencii Hook.f. orth. var.
- Eurybia lepidophylla (Pers.) DC. var. lepidophylla
- Shawia lepidophylla (Pers.) Sch.Bip.
}}
Olearia lepidophylla, commonly known as club-moss daisy-bush,{{cite web |last1=Lander |first1=Nicholas S. |title=Olearia lepidophylla |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Olearia~lepidophylla |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |access-date=18 May 2022}} is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is a rigid, erect to spreading shrub with tiny oblong to egg-shaped leaves and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.
Description
Olearia lepidophylla is a rigid, erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of up to {{cvt|1.5|m}} and has twiggy branchlets covered with woolly white hairs. Its leaves are arranged alternately along the branchlets and clustered, oblong to egg-shaped, {{cvt|0.5–1.5|mm}} long, {{cvt|0.3–0.8|mm}} wide and more or less sessile. The edges of the leaves are rolled under and the lower surface is covered with pale gey, woolly hairs. The heads or daisy-like "flowers" are arranged singly on the ends of branchlets and are {{cvt|6–15|mm}} in diameter and sessile. Each head has four to seven white ray florets, the ligule {{cvt|3–5|mm}} long, surrounding four to six yellow disc florets. Flowering occurs from March to June and the fruit is a silky-hairy achene, the pappus with 29 to 44 bristles.{{cite web |title=Olearia lepidophylla |url=http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/cgi-bin/speciesfacts_display.cgi?form=speciesfacts&name=Olearia_lepidophylla |publisher=State Herbrium of South Australia |access-date=18 May 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Neville G. |last2=Lander |first2=Nicholas S. |title=Olearia lepidophylla |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/11b8e7c5-87bd-4e68-b63c-f2e8627071ad |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |access-date=18 May 2022}}
Taxonomy
This olearia was first formally described in 1807 by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon who gave it the name Aster lepidophyllus in his Synopsis Plantarum.{{cite web|title=Aster lepidophyllus|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/537660|publisher=APNI|access-date=18 May 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Persoon |first1=Christiaan H. |title=Synopsis plantarum, seu enchiridium botanicum, complectens enumerationem systematicam specierum |volume=2 |date=1807 |location=Paris |page=442 |url=https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/9823/?offset=#page=446&viewer=picture&o=bookmark&n=0&q= |access-date=18 May 2022}} In 1867, George Bentham changed the name to Olearia lepidophylla in Flora Australiensis.{{cite web|title=Olearia lepidophylla|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/534173|publisher=APNI|access-date=18 May 2022}} The specific epithet (lepidophylla) means "scale-leaved".{{cite book |last1=Sharr |first1=Francis Aubi |last2=George |first2=Alex |title=Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, WA |isbn=9780958034180 |page=238 |edition=3rd}}
Distribution and habitat
Olearia lepidophylla grows in mallee and heath and on coastal sand dunes in the Esperance Plains, Hampton and Mallee bioregions of Western Australia, the south-east of South Australia, mainly in the far north-west of Victoria, the south-west of New South Wales and on the coast and a few inland areas of Tasmania.{{FloraBase|name=Olearia lepidophylla|id=19022}}{{cite web |last1=Jordan |first1=Greg |title=Olearia lepidophylla |url=https://www.utas.edu.au/dicotkey/dicotkey/AST/ast/sOlearia_lepidophylla.htm |publisher=University of Tasmania |access-date=18 May 2022}}
References
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Category:Eudicots of Western Australia
Category:Flora of South Australia
Category:Flora of New South Wales
Category:Flora of Victoria (state)