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

O. allomii Kirk in T.N.Z.I. 3, 1871, 179.

Type: W, A. J. Allom.

Shrub up to 1 m. tall, us. less; branchlets stout, clad in smooth appressed silvery tomentum. Lvs 2.5-5 × 2-4 cm., obliquely ovate- to elliptic-oblong, very coriac., glab. above when mature, with appressed silvery tomentum below; midrib very prominent below, margins entire. Capitula c. 1·5 cm. diam., in branched corymbs on stout pedicels up to 2 cm. long. Florets 14-20 per capitulum, ray-florets 5-10. Phyll. laxly imbricate, broad-lanceolate, tomentose on back, forming a turbinate involucre. Achenes grooved, pilose to hispid; pappus-hairs brownish, plumose.

DIST.: N. Great Barrier Id. Sealevel to 750 m.

FL. 10-12. FT. 12-2.

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