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Olearia astroloba Lander & N.G.Walsh

Marble daisy-bush

Asteraceae · Victoria

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Olearia astroloba, photograph User:Zenwort, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsOlearia astroloba, photograph Allthingsnative, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsOlearia astroloba, photograph Raffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsOlearia astroloba, photograph Raffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsOlearia astroloba, photograph Raffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsOlearia astroloba, photograph Raffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 7 photographs ›
Habitat figuresfrom few records
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
0.0°C
Record low -3.0 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
25°C
Feb at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
691mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
12–45DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Rain spread: 70% of the median year's rain takes 8 months, so no short rainy season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

From few records: 15 records in 3 grid cells. The records.

Summary

Olearia astroloba, commonly known as marble daisy-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to a restricted area of Victoria in Australia. It is a greyish shrub with sessile, spatula-shaped leaves and mauve or violet and purple, daisy-like inflorescences.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Olearia astroloba", CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Seasons

The rain rule reads no short rainy season: 70% of the median year's rain (493 mm of 679 mm) takes 8 months, June to January. Mean temperature moves 12.9 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: December to July.

Rain

679 mm in the median year at the habitat, 493 mm of it June to January. Wettest month November at 71 mm, driest month April at 42 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 612 mm to 733 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 691 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 679 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, southern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 12 to 45 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 0.0 °C, the absolute minimum -3.0 °C, 159 frost nights in 44 years, 3.6 a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.9 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 2.7 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 1.2 °C to 5.5 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 24.5 °C in February (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 0.0 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 56 to 66% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -403 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

From few records: this habitat climate is read from 15 records in 3 grid cells; a page says so under 12 records or 5 cells, and shows the figures as read.

Habitat months, southern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Olearia astroloba through the yearWarmest month February, mean daily high 25 °C; coldest month July, mean nightly low 2.7 °C; 679 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, southern hemisphere.-10°0°10°20°30°40°frost34.9° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER-3.0° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0255075mm rainDLI 12–45RH 56–66%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 3 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C24 / 24–2525 / 23–2522 / 20–2218 / 16–1914 / 12–1510 / 9–129 / 8–1211 / 9–1314 / 13–1517 / 16–1820 / 19–2122 / 21–23
Night °C13 / 11–1413 / 11–1411 / 9–138 / 6–106 / 4–84 / 2–63 / 1–63 / 2–65 / 3–77 / 5–99 / 8–1111 / 9–13
Rain mm49 / 46–5148 / 47–5448 / 42–5442 / 36–6448 / 43–5561 / 54–6660 / 54–6261 / 55–6263 / 56–6768 / 61–7071 / 62–7260 / 53–65
DLI45 / 45–4540 / 40–4132 / 31–3323 / 22–2416 / 15–1612 / 12–1314 / 13–1519 / 18–2027 / 26–2836 / 34–3641 / 41–4244 / 44–45
RH %56 / 56–5758 / 57–5858 / 58–5960 / 59–6164 / 62–6466 / 64–6666 / 63–6663 / 61–6360 / 59–6158 / 58–595857 / 57–58
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 3 grid cells holding the 15 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 2541:6556 (-37.075, 147.825). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -3.0 °C, 1st-percentile night 0.0 °C, 99th-percentile day 34.9 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 3 distinct grid cells holding 15 of the 15 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2541:6556 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -37.00_148.125, lapse-corrected -403 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 574 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeVictoria · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-37.085, 147.858 · in the densest population, 14 records (93% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate across the range rest on all 15 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 14 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 15 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: User:Zenwort, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Allthingsnative, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Raffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (4).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Acacia gunnii Acacia gunnii Dog's Tooth Wattle Photo: CC BY, herbie-hancockAcacia pravissima Acacia pravissima Wedge-leaf wattle Photo: CC0, author not statedEucalyptus dives Eucalyptus dives Blue peppermint Photo: CC0, author not statedLeucochrysum albicans Leucochrysum albicans Hoary sunray Photo: CC BY, Jared ShormaEuchiton japonicus Euchiton japonicus Father-and-child plant Photo: CC BY, Hannah RogersEucalyptus pulverulenta Eucalyptus pulverulenta Silverleaf mountain gum Photo: CC BY, Daniel Mesa

Other Olearia 17 in the reference

Olearia algida Olearia algida Alpine daisy-bush Photo: CC BY, Leon PerrieOlearia axillaris Olearia axillaris Coastal Daisy-Bush Photo: CC BY, smathichongOlearia canescens Olearia canescens Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Martin Hannan-JonesOlearia frostii Olearia frostii Bogong daisy-bush Photo: CC BY, Petra HollandOlearia glutinosa Olearia glutinosa Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Bryce Watts-ParkerOlearia homolepis Olearia homolepis Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, AllthingsnativeOlearia lepidophylla Olearia lepidophylla Clubmoss daisy-bush Photo: CC BY, Bryce Watts-ParkerOlearia lirata Olearia lirata Dusty daisybush Photo: CC BY, Ian RainbowOlearia microphylla Olearia microphylla Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Thomas MesaglioOlearia nernstii Olearia nernstii Ipswich daisy Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyOlearia passerinoides Olearia passerinoides Slender daisy-bush Photo: CC0, author not statedOlearia phlogopappa Olearia phlogopappa Dusty daisybush Photo: CC BY, Eamonn Culhane all 18 ›

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataWikipedia

The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
Lander & N.G.Walsh
Native to
Victoria
Wild records
15 in range · 14 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -37.00_148.125, lapse-corrected -403 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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