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Phaseolaster praetermissa is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a subshrub or shrub endemic to Lord Howe Island.
The plant was first described as Olearia elliptica subsp. praetermissa by Peter Shaw Green in 1993. The subspecific epithet means "overlooked", referring to the fact that this distinctive endemic subspecies was long overlooked. In 2020 Guy L. Nesom placed it in the newly-described genus Phaseolaster as a full species, P. praetermissa, after Olearia had been found to be polyphyletic.
The species is endemic to Australia's subtropical Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. There it is found growing in pockets of soil on rocky ledges at higher elevations on Mount Lidgbird.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phaseolaster praetermissa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
