Interesting Facts
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.
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 272 meters (0 to 892 feet).[1]
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:
pannosa
- Hook.
- Botanical name: - Olearia pannosa Hook.
- Specific epithet:
pannosa
- Hook.
- 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, Tropicos. GCC LSID: urn
:lsid:compositae.org:names:1848E9A9-5D1C-4CBE-BBB7-6F22D609DF4E
Last scrutiny: 15-Aug-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
- 1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants Cambridge: IUCN, World Conservation Union, 1998 url p. 184.
- Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1902- url p. 103.
- Compositae newsletter. Columbus, Ohio: Dept. of Botany, Ohio State University, 1975- url p. 17.
- Journal of the proceedings of the Linnean Society. Botany. 5 1861 London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts: ||Williams and Norgate, 1857-1864. url p. 18.
- Plant habits and habitats in the arid portions of South Australia, Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1921. url .
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. Melbourne: The Society, 1889- url p. 260, p. 479.
- The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 756, p. 862.
- The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 113.
- The Victorian naturalist. [Melbourne]Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. url p. 100, p. 124.
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: 5846313
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-14137
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:234893-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2126880
Footnotes
- Mean = 98.240 meters (322.310 feet), Standard Deviation = 114.460 based on 17 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
