Ozothamnus hookeri

Ozothamnus hookeri, commonly known as kerosene bush, is an aromatic shrub species, endemic to Australia. It grows to between 0.5 and 1 metre in height and has white-tomentose branchlets. The scale-like leaves are 4 to 5 mm long and 0.5 to 1 mm wide. These are green on the upper surface, and white tomentose below.^[2] The flower heads appear in dense clusters in summer and autumn^[2] The species occurs in boggy sites and subalpine heathland New South Wales and Tasmania.^[2]

Ozothamnus hookeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Ozothamnus
Species:	O. hookeri
Binomial name
Ozothamnus hookeri Sond.[1]
Synonyms
Baccharis lepidophylla DC. Helichrysum baccharoides F.Muell. nom. illeg. Helichrysum baccharoides F.Muell. ex Benth. nom. illeg. Helichrysum hookeri (Sond.) Druce var. hookeri Helichrysum hookeri (Sond.) Druce Helichrysum lepidophyllum (DC.) Tovey & P.Morris nom. illeg. Helichrysum lepidophyllum (Steetz) F.Muell. ex Benth. Ozothamnus lepidophyllus (DC.) Hook.f. nom. illeg.

The species was formally described in 1853 by German botanist Otto Wilhelm Sonder.^[1] The Latin specific epithet hookeri refers to the English botanist William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865).^[3]