Olearia megalophylla is a species of flowering plant

Flowering plant

The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...

 in the family Asteraceae

Asteraceae

The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...

. It is a shrub to 2 metre high with scattered leaves. These are dark green above and woolly underneath and are 20 to 120 mm long and 6 to 28 mm wide. The flowerhead

Flowerhead

-Biography:The seeds of Flowerhead were originally planted deep underground by founding members Eric Faust and Buz Zoller in 1987. With the addition of Eric Schmitz in 1989 and Pete Levine in 1990, the roots took hold...

s have 5 to 9 white ray florets and 9 to 14 yellow disc florets. The species was first formally described by Ferdinand von Mueller

Ferdinand von Mueller

Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, KCMG was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist.-Early life:...

 in Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania in 1859, and named Eurybia megalophylla. In 1865 he placed the species in the genus Aster and finally in Olearia

Olearia

Olearia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. There are about 130 different species within the genus found mostly in Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand...

in 1867. It occurs in moist sclerophyll

Sclerophyll

Sclerophyll is the term for a type of vegetation that has hard leaves and short internodes . The word comes from the Greek sclero and phyllon ....

 forest in south-eastern New South Wales

New South Wales

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 and Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

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