Species of shrub
 ;templatestyles src="Template:Taxobox/core/styles.css" / ;
Olearia megalophylla, commonly known as large-leaf daisy bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a spreading shrub with egg-shaped to elliptic leaves and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.
Description.
"Olearia megalophylla" is a spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has its branchlets covered with felt-like, Y-shaped hairs. Its leaves are egg-shaped to elliptic, long and wide on a petiole up to long. The upper surface of the leaves is dark green and glabrous, the lower surface densely covered with hairs similar to those on the branchlets. The heads or daisy-like "flowers" are arranged in corymbs on the ends of branchlets and are in diameter on a peduncle long. Each head has five to nine white ray florets, the ligule long, surrounding nine to fourteen yellow disc florets. Flowering occurs from December to March and the fruit is a more or less glabrous achene, the pappus with 51 to 80 bristles in two rows.
Taxonomy.
This daisy bush was first formally described in 1860 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name "Eurybia megalophylla" in "Papers and Prodeedings of the Royal Society of van Dieman's Land". In 1867, George Bentham changed the name to "Olearia megalophylla" in "Flora Australiensis". The specific epithet ("megalophylla") means "large-leaved".
Distribution and habitat.
Large-leaf daisy bush grows in forest and woodland on the slopes and tablelands of south from near Orange New South Wales to near Lake Mountain in eastern Victoria.
References.
 ;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" / ;