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

O. traversii (F. Muell.) Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1867, 731.

Eurybia traversii F. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is 1864, 19, t. 2.

Type: Nat. Herb. Vict., Melbourne?

Shrub or tree up to 10 m. tall, trunk up to 6 dm. diam., bark pale; branchlets tetragonous, clad as are infl.-branchlets in appressed silky tomentum. Lvs opp., (1·5)-4-6·5 × (1)-2.5-3 cm., oblong to ovate-oblong, acute, us. apiculate, coriac., entire, flat, glab. above when mature, clad in appressed silky tomentum below. Capitula c. 6·5 mm. diam., ∞, in axillary panicles; florets 5-15, all tubular; phyll. few, linear-oblong; achenes striate, compressed, silky-hairy; pappus-hairs fulvid, unequal.

DIST .: Ch. Forest. Akeake.

FL. 9-12. FT. 11-2.

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