Olearia rugosa
Olearia rugosa, commonly known as wrinkled daisy-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It has alternate, wrinkled leaves and white daisy-like flowers and is endemic to Victoria. Description. "Olearia rugosa" is sometimes a spindly shrub to high with branchlets densely covered in star-shaped, short matted hairs. The leaves are arranged alternately, almost sessile or with a petiole, broadly elliptic, oblong or egg-shaped, long, usually wide, green on the upper surface, veined, wrinkled, warty, some with finer occasional star-shaped hairs and densely covered in grey-brown, soft hairs on the  under surface. The leaf margins are broadly toothed to scalloped, flat or curved under, rarely smooth. The flower head is in diameter, borne in upper leaf axils or at the end of branches singly or in corymbs on a peduncle long. The white flowers are in groups of 8-13, ligules long, centres yellow or purplish. The bracts toothed, margins sometimes purple coloured, densely covered with short, matted, star-shaped hairs or only near the apex. The dry fruit is cylindrical, one-seeded, ribbed, long, smooth or with a moderate covering of silky hairs. Taxonomy and naming. This olearia was  described in 1861 by W. Archer and given the name "Eurybia rugosa". In 1917 John Hutchinson changed the name to "Olearia rugosa" and the description was published in The Gardeners' Chronicle.The specific epithet ("rugosa") means "wrinkled". Distribution. This olearia grows in Victoria.