Olearia

Olearia
File:Olearia stuartii.jpg
Olearia stuartii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Astereae
Genus:	Olearia Moench
Species
See text.

Olearia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. There are about 130 different species within the genus found mostly in Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand. The genus includes herbaceous plants, shrubs and small trees. The latter are unusual among the Asteraceae and are called Tree daisies in New Zealand. All bear the familiar daisy-like composite flowerheads.

The genus is named after Johann Gottfried Olearius, a 17th-century German scholar and author of Specimen Florae Hallensis.

Olearia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Aenetus ligniveren, which burrows into the trunk.

Species

Selected species

Olearia albida – tanguru Olearia algida - alpine daisy-bush Olearia allomii Olearia angulata Olearia angustifolia Olearia arborescens – common tree daisy Olearia argophylla - musk daisy-bush, Native musk, Silver shrub Olearia asterotricha - rough daisy-bush Olearia astroloba - marble daisy-bush Olearia avicennifolia – Akeake Olearia axillaris - coast daisy-bush Olearia ballii - mountain daisy Olearia buchananii Olearia bullata Olearia canescens - grey daisy bush Olearia capillaris Olearia chathamica Olearia cheesmanii – streamside tree daisy Olearia ciliata - fringed daisy-bush Olearia colensoi Olearia covenyi Olearia coriacea Olearia elliptica - sticky daisy-bush Olearia ericoides Olearia erubescens - pink-tip daisy-bush, moth daisy-bush Olearia flocktoniae - Dorrigo daisy-bush Olearia floribunda - heath daisy-bush Olearia fragrantissima Olearia frostii - Bogong daisy-bush Olearia furfuracea - akepiro Olearia glandulosa - swamp daisy-bush Olearia glutinosa - sticky daisy-bush Olearia haastii Olearia hectori Olearia homolepis Olearia hookeri Olearia ilicifolia – hakeke Olearia insignis Olearia iodochroa - violet daisy-bush Olearia lacunosa - lancewood tree daisy Olearia ledifolia Olearia lepidophylla - club-moss daisy-bush Olearia lirata - snowy daisy-bush Olearia lyallii

Olearia macrodonta - mountain holly, New Zealand holly, arorangi Olearia megalophylla - large-leaf daisy-bush Olearia microphylla - small-leaf daisy-bush Olearia mooneyi Olearia moschata Olearia myrsinoides - blush daisy-bush, silky daisy-bush Olearia nernstii Olearia nummulariifolia Olearia obcordata Olearia odorata - scented tree daisy Olearia oporina Olearia pachyphylla Olearia paniculata - akiraho Olearia pannosa - velvet daisy-bush Olearia persoonioides Olearia phlogopappa - dusty daisy-bush Olearia pimeleoides - pimelea daisy-bush Olearia pinifolia Olearia polita Olearia quercifolia -oak-leaved daisy-bush Olearia ramulosa - twiggy daisy-bush Olearia rani – heketara Olearia rotundifolia Olearia semidentata Olearia solandri - coastal tree daisy Olearia speciosa - netted daisy-bush Olearia stuartii Olearia suffruticosa - clustered daisy-bush Olearia tasmanica Olearia teretifolia - cypress daisy-bush Olearia tomentosa - toothed daisy-bush Olearia traversii – Chatham Island akeake, Chatham Island tree-daisy Olearia virgata Olearia viscidula - sticky daisy-bush Olearia viscosa - viscid daisy-bush

References

• PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online: Olearia