Olearia nernstii
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| Olearia nernstii | |
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| In the Australian National Botanic Gardens | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Olearia |
| Species: | O. nernstii |
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| Olearia nernstii | |
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Olearia nernstii is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with scattered egg-shaped to elliptic leaves with toothed or prickly edges, and white and yellow, daisy-like inflorescences.
Olearia nernstii is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in). Its leaves are arranged alternately but scattered, egg-shaped to elliptic, 20–110 mm (0.79–4.33 in) long and 8–35 mm (0.31–1.38 in) wide with toothed or prickly edges. The lower surface of the leaves is covered with woolly brown hairs. The heads or daisy-like "flowers" are arranged in loose groups on the ends of branches on a peduncle up to 35 mm (1.4 in) long. Each head is 14–29 mm (0.55–1.14 in) wide with nine to twenty white ray florets surrounding fifteen to forty yellow disc florets. Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is a more or less glabrous achene, the pappus with 29 to 45 bristles.[2]