Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Coast Daisy-Bush
Description
Family Compositae
The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.
Physical Description
Habit: Evergreen .
Flowers: Bloom Period: June, July, August, September. • Flower Color: near white, pale yellow, white
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 4-6' tall.
Habitat
Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 50 meters (164 feet).[1]
Biome: Coastal.
Biology
Growth
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Asterales
()
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Compositae
()
- Giseke, 1792, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily:
Asteroideae
()
- Tribe:
Astereae
()
- Subtribe:
Hinterhuberinae
()
- Genus:
Olearia
()
- Moench, 1802, nom. cons.
- Specific epithet:
axillaris
- (DC.) F.Muell. ex Benth.
- Botanical name: - Olearia axillaris (DC.) F.Muell. ex Benth.
- Specific epithet:
axillaris
- (DC.) F.Muell. ex Benth.
- Genus:
Olearia
(
- Subtribe:
Hinterhuberinae
(
- Tribe:
Astereae
(
- Subfamily:
Asteroideae
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Data Providers: Govaerts World Compositae Checklist
A-G,
IPNI, Flora
of Tasmania Online, New South Wales Flora Online, Western
Australia Census, Electronic Flora of South Australia. GCC LSID:
urn
:lsid:compositae.org:names:8C397C18-F3E1-4518-86BD-BD5F62651CDC
Last scrutiny: 14-Nov-09
Similar Species
Members of the genus Olearia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 32 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
O. algida (Alpine Daisy-Bush) · O. allomii (Daisy Bush) · O. arborescens (Common Tree Daisy) · O. argophylla (Musk Daisy-Bush) · O. asterotricha (Rough Daisy-Bush) · O. axillaris (Coast Daisy-Bush) · O. cheesmanii (Daisy Bush) · O. ciliata (Fringed Daisy-Bush) · O. elliptica (Sticky Daisy-Bush) · O. erubescens (Moth Daisy-Bush) · O. floribunda (Heath Daisy-Bush) · O. frostii (Bogong Daisy-Bush) · O. furfuracea (Akepiro) · O. glandulosa (Swamp Daisy-Bush) · O. glutinosa (Sticky Daisy-Bush) · O. ilicifolia (Mountain Holly) · O. ledifolia (Orites Mountain Daisy-Bush) · O. lirata (Showy Daisy-Bush) · O. macrodonta (Bush Daisy) · O. megalophylla (Large-Leaf Daisy-Bush) · O. minor (Satin Daisy-Bush) · O. muelleri (Mueller Daisy-Bush) · O. myrsinoides (Silky Daisy-Bush) · O. persoonioides (Geebung Daisy-Bush) · O. phlogopappa (Dusty Daisy-Bush) · O. ramulosa (Twiggy Daisy-Bush) · O. rugosa (Wrinkled Daisy-Bush) · O. speciosa (Netted Daisy-Bush) · O. stellulata (Starry Daisy-Bush) · O. teretifolia (Cypress Daisy-Bush) · O. tomentosa (Toothed Daisy-Bush) · O. viscosa (Viscid Daisy-Bush)
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Further Reading
- Compositae newsletter. Columbus, Ohio: Dept. of Botany, Ohio State University, 1975- url p. 17.
- Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 128, p. 247, p. 554.
- The IUCN Mammal Red Data Book. Part 1: threatened mammalian taxa of the Americas and the Australasian zoogeographic region (excluding Cetacea) IUCN url p. 269, p. 269.
- The Victorian naturalist. [Melbourne]Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. url p. 17.
- The rusts of Australia their structure, nature and classification / by D. McAlpine. Melbourne: Robt. S. Brain, government printer1906. url p. 197, p. 440.
- The rusts of Australia, their structure, nature, and classification. Melbourne, Brain, 1906. url p. 197, p. 334, p. 337.
- Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia (Incorporated). Adelaide: W.C. Rigby, 1912-1937. url p. 124, p. 172, p. 199, p. 202, p. 203, p. 205, p. 252.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 13, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 16, 2008:
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10547593
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-494
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13743275
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:143862-3
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1012018
Footnotes
- Standard Deviation = 132.510 based on 65 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
