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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Olearia lyallii Hook.f.

O. lyallii Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 116.

Type locality: Auckland Is. Type: K, Lyall.

Shrub or tree up to 10 m. tall; trunk up to 6 dm. diam.; branchlets stout, densely white-tomentose. Lvs 10-25 cm. long including petiole up to 5 mm. or more long, elliptic-ovate to ovate-orbicular, abruptly acute to acuminate, clad in dense white woolly tomentum below, irregularly doubly crenate. Racemes up to 26 cm. long with pedicels up to 8 cm. long subtended by woolly bracts. Capitula 3-4 cm. diam.; phyll. ∞ in several series, linear-oblong, acute, glab. except towards tips and on margins; florets dark brown; achenes 7 mm. long, ribbed, densely pilose; pappus-hairs up to 8 cm. long, dull white.

DIST.: Sn., A. (forming forest in places).

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