Species of plant
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Olearia teretifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a bushy shrub with lance-shaped, egg-shaped or elliptic leaves arranged in opposite pairs, and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.
Description.
"Olearia viscosa" is a bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of up to about and has more or less glabrous, sticky branchlets. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, lance-shaped to narrowly egg-shaped or elliptic, long and wide on a short petiole. The upper surface is sticky or covered with resin glands, the lower surface whitish or yellowish and densely hairy. The heads or daisy-like "flowers" are arranged in moderately dense groups on the ends of branches, each head in diameter with a narrowly conical involucre long at the base. Each head has one or two white ray florets, the ligule long, surrounding 3 to 5 yellow disc florets. Flowering occurs in November and December and the fruit is a ribbed, cylindrical achene long, the pappus long.
Taxonomy.
This daisy was first formally described in 1867 by Jacques Labillardière who gave it the name "Aster viscosus" in his book "Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen". In 1867, George Bentham changed the name to "Olearia viscosa" in "Flora Australiensis". The specific epithet ("viscosa") means "abounding in bird lime", that is "sticky" or "viscid".
Distribution and habitat.
"Olearia viscosa" grows in forest, mainly in Tasmania where it is widespread and reasonably common, especially in the south of the state, but also in Victoria where it is confined to coastal scrub and the edges of rainforest near Lakes Entrance.
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