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

O. buchananii Kirk Stud. Fl. 1899, 267.

Shrub or small tree; branchlets c. 3 mm. diam., with red glab. bark. Lvs opp., 5-7·5 × 3-6·5 cm., elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, gradually narrowed to short petiole, entire, glab. above, clad in thin subappressed whitish tomentum below. Capitula 6-7 mm. long, in small corymbs on very slender pubescent pedicels; phyll. c. 10, outer pubescent, inner glab. except at tips; florets 6-8; achenes c. 1 mm. long, striate, pubescent to pilose.

DIST .: Known only from a single specimen in the Kirk Herb. (W), collected by Buchanan " Probably Taranaki or Auckland ".

Cheeseman (Man. N.Z. Fl. 1925, 916) remarks: " It is evidently a distinct species, not clearly related to any other."

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