Olearia obcordata: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Olearia
- Species
- Olearia obcordata
- Scientific Name
- Olearia obcordata
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Olearia obcordata
Olearia obcordata is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a shrub that typically grows to a height of less than 3 ft (0.91 m). It usually has wedge-shaped leaves arranged alternately along the branchlets, the narrower end towards the base, with three or five teeth on the ends. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils and are few in number with up to six ray florets.
It was first formally described in 1847 by Joseph Dalton Hooker who gave it the name Eurybia obcordata in the London Journal of Botany from specimens collected by Ronald Campbell Gunn. In 1867, George Bentham changed the name to Olearia obcordata in Flora Australiensis. The specific epithet (obcordata) means "inverted heart-shaped".
Olearia obcordata grows in drier mountain areas of Tasmania.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Olearia adenocarpa
- Olearia adenolasia
- Olearia adenophora
- Olearia aglossa
- Olearia albida
- Olearia algida
- Olearia allomii
- Olearia alpicola
- Olearia angulata
- Olearia arborescens
- Olearia arborescens × lacunosa
- Olearia archeri
- Olearia arckaringensis
- Olearia argophylla
- Olearia arguta
- Olearia asterotricha
- Olearia astroloba
- Olearia avicenniifolia
- Olearia axillaris
- Olearia ballii
- Olearia brachyphylla
- Olearia brevipedunculata
- Olearia bullata
- Olearia calcarea
- Olearia canescens
- Olearia cheesemanii
- Olearia chrysophylla
- Olearia ciliata
- Olearia cordata
- Olearia coriacea
- Olearia covenyi
- Olearia crebra
- Olearia crosby-smithiana
- Olearia curticoma
- Olearia cydoniifolia
- Olearia cymbifolia
- Olearia decurrens
- Olearia durifolia
- Olearia elaeophila
- Olearia elliptica
- Olearia eremaea
- Olearia ericoides
- Olearia erubescens
- Olearia exiguifolia
- Olearia ferresii
- Olearia fimbriata
- Olearia floccosa
- Olearia flocktoniae
- Olearia floribunda
- Olearia fragrantissima
- Olearia frostii
- Olearia fulgens
- Olearia furfuracea
- Olearia gardneri
- Olearia glandulosa
- Olearia glutinosa
- Olearia grandiflora
- Olearia gravis
- Olearia haastii
- Olearia hectorii
- Olearia heterocarpa
- Olearia heterolepis
- Olearia heterotricha
- Olearia homolepis
- Olearia hooglandii
- Olearia hookeri
- Olearia hygrophila
- Olearia ilicifolia
- Olearia ilicifolia × lacunosa
- Olearia imbricata
- Olearia incana
- Olearia iodochroa
- Olearia kernotii
- Olearia lacunosa
- Olearia lanata
- Olearia lanuginosa
- Olearia lasiophylla
- Olearia laxiflora
- Olearia ledifolia
- Olearia lehmanniana
- Olearia lepidophylla
- Olearia lepidota
- Olearia leptocephala
- Olearia lineata
- Olearia lirata
- Olearia magniflora
- Olearia megalophylla
- Olearia microdisca
- Olearia microphylla
- Olearia minor
- Olearia montana
- Olearia monticola
- Olearia mooneyi
- Olearia moschata
- Olearia muelleri
- Olearia muricata
- Olearia myrsinoides
- Olearia nernstii
- Olearia nummulariifolia
- Olearia obcordata
- Olearia odorata
- Olearia oleifolia
- Olearia oppositifolia
- Olearia pachycephala
- Olearia pachyphylla
- Olearia pallida
- Olearia paniculata
- Olearia pannosa
- Olearia passerinoides
- Olearia paucidentata
- Olearia persoonioides
- Olearia phlogopappa
- Olearia picridifolia
- Olearia pimeleoides
- Olearia pinifolia
- Olearia platyphylla
- Olearia polita
- Olearia praetermissa
- Olearia quercifolia
- Olearia quinquevulnera
- Olearia ramosissima
- Olearia ramulosa
- Olearia rani
- Olearia revoluta
- Olearia rosmarinifolia
- Olearia rudis
- Olearia rufa
- Olearia rugosa
- Olearia solandri
- Olearia speciosa
- Olearia spectabilis
- Olearia stellulata
- Olearia stenophylla
- Olearia stilwelliae
- Olearia stricta
- Olearia strigosa
- Olearia stuartii
- Olearia subspicata
- Olearia suffruticosa
- Olearia tasmanica
- Olearia telmatica
- Olearia tenuifolia
- Olearia teretifolia
- Olearia thomsonii
- Olearia tomentosa
- Olearia townsonii
- Olearia traversiorum
- Olearia tubuliflora
- Olearia velutina
- Olearia vernonioides
- Olearia virgata
- Olearia viscidula
- Olearia viscosa
- Olearia xerophila