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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Olearia odorata Petrie

O. odorata Petrie in T.N.Z.I. 23, 1891, 399.

Type locality: Maniototo Plain. Type: W, D. Petrie.

Shrub up to 4 m. tall; branchlets rather stout, divaricating, terete, striate. Lvs us. in opp. fascicles on very short branchlets, 10-25 × 6-15 mm., subsessile, coriac., obovate-oblong, glab. or nearly so above when mature, clad below in soft white tomentum; margins flat, entire. Capitula in opp. fascicles of 2-5, on short stout peduncles; florets 20-40, ray-florets up to 20, short; corolla of disk-florets viscid-glandular; phyll. in 3-4 series, linear-oblong, obtuse, viscid. Achenes pilose, striate, compressed, 1-2 mm. long; pappus-hairs 2-3 mm. long.

DIST.: S. Montane to lower subalpine shrubland from lat. 42° southwards.

FL. 12-2. FT. 1-3.

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