Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Mountain Holly
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: Flower Color: near white, white
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 15-20' tall.
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,659 meters (0 to 5,443 feet).[1]
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:
ilicifolia
- Hook.f.
- Botanical name: - Olearia ilicifolia Hook.f.
- Specific epithet:
ilicifolia
- Hook.f.
- 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: New Zealand Plant Name Database, IPNI, Govaerts
World Compositae Checklist
A-G, Tropicos, Euro+Med, LCR Editor. GCC
LSID: urn
:lsid:compositae.org:names:D0E16A5D-0705-49C6-8BE6-C2D2AFB91E37
Last scrutiny: 04-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
- Alpine plants, a practical manual for their culture, with a supplementary essay on The small rock-garden. London, C. Scribner's Sons, 1906, 1907. url .
- Beautiful flowering shrubs, London, Cassell & company, ltd., [1922] url p. 202.
- Handbook of gardening for New Zealand, with chapters on poultry and bee-keeping / M. Murphy Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, [1888?] url p. 164.
- Irish gardening. Dublin: Pub. Office, 1906-1922 url , p. 119.
- Journal of botany, British and foreign. 4 1866 London: Robert Hardwicke, 1863-1942. url p. 228, p. 253.
- Manual of the New Zealand flora. By T. F. Cheeseman. .. Wellington, N. Z., J. Mackay, Govt. Printer, 1906. url p. 286.
- New Zealand nature notes. Short sketches of the geology, botany, zoology, and ethnology of New Zealand (with notes on engineering-works) for the use of members of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, We Wellington, W.Z.G. Skinner, Govt. Print., 1922. url p. 52, p. 56.
- New Zealand plants and their story. By L. Cockayne. .. Wellington, N.Z., M.F. Marks, Govt. Printer, 1919. url p. 238, p. 62, p. 77.
- Plants of New Zealand / Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1906. url .
- Plants of New Zealand, by R. M. Laing and E. W. Blackwell. Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd., 1906. url p. 410, p. 416.
- Plants of New Zealand, by R.M. Laing, and E.W. Blackwell. Christchurch, Wellington, and Dunedin, N.Z. [etc.]Whitcombe and Tombs, 1907. url p. 416.
- Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76: under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and Captain Frank Turle Thomson, R.N. / prepared under the superintendence of Sir C. Wyville Thomson. Edinburgh: Neill, 1880-1895. url p. 23.
- The Garden: an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. London: [s.n., url p. 12, p. 336.
- The Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette. London: published for the proprietors, 1844-1873. url p. 678, p. 845.
- The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url , , p. 103, p. 171, p. 18, p. 26, p. 271, p. 332, p. 391, p. 392, p. 493, p. 716.
- The distribution of the vegetation and flora of New Zealand. By L. Cockayne. Nelson, N.Z., R.W. Stiles & Co., Printers, 1920 url p. 64.
- The students' flora of New Zealand and the outlying islands. Wellington, N. Z., John Mackay, govt. printer[1899] url .
- Transactions and proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. [Edinburgh]: The Society, 1891-1970. url p. 114, p. 124, p. 408.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 13, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5846281
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-1415
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15178957
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:234844-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 757156
Footnotes
- Mean = 567.660 meters (1,862.402 feet), Standard Deviation = 613.480 based on 1,221 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
