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Olearia calcarea F.Muell. ex Benth.
Family Asteraceae
Common name: Limestone Daisy Bush

Olearia calcarea F.Muell. ex Benth. APNI*

Description: Shrub to 0.8 m high.

Leaves alternate, scattered; lamina obovate or broad-spathulate, 2–15 mm long, 2–8 mm wide; apex rounded, without a mucro; margins toothed, flat; surfaces concolorous, both glabrous or glandular, punctate; venation indistinct; sessile or subsessile.

Heads terminal, solitary, sessile or subsessile, 31–45 mm diam. Ray florets 9–13, white. Disc florets 21–30, yellow.

Achenes silky; pappus with 74–84 bristles in 2 series.


Flowering: May–October

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in open mallee, on red sandy loam on rocky slopes; west from Nymagee district, but chiefly in the White Cliffs district.
NSW subdivisions: SWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Vic. W.A. S.A.
AVH map***

Text by N. S. Lander
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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