''Olearia persoonioides'' is a species of

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in the family

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and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are arranged alternately, oblong or egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, and long. They are shiny green on the upper surface and covered with silvery hairs on the lower side. The heads or daisy-like "flowers" are arranged in leafy

panicle A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are of ...

s with 3 to 8 white ray

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surrounding 10 to 12 disc florets. Flowering occurs in January. It was first formally described in 1836 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle who gave it the name ''Eurybia persoonioides'' in his ''

Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis ''Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis'' (1824–1873), also known by its standard botanical abbreviation ''Prodr. (DC.)'', is a 17-volume treatise on botany initiated by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. De Candolle intended it as a summa ...

'' from specimens collected by Allan Cunningham. In 1867, George Bentham changed the name to ''Olearia persoonioides'' in '' Flora Australiensis''. ''Olearia persoonioides'' grows in wet forest in Tasmania.

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persoonioides Flora of Tasmania Plants described in 1836 Taxa named by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle {{Australia-eudicot-stub