Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cassinia quinquefaria
Common name
None
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and grassy areas. Western Slopes and ACT. Tablelands north of Cooma. Ranges mainly north from Morton National Park. Coastal mainly north from Jervis Bay.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m high. Stems olive or red, usually resinous and with spreading glandular hairs, sometimes apparently hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–6 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, margins rolled down, upper surface hairless, resinous, or glandular and sticky, with 2 prominent parallel main veins, lower surface hairy except on the conspicuous midrib, tips pointed, margins rolled down. Flower heads narrow oblong to bell-shaped at maturity, 2.5–4 mm long, 1–3 mm in diameter, with 5 or 6 creamy-white florets, in a loose to dense greenish yellow pyramidal branched cluster 50–180 mm long, 40–60 mm in diameter. Flowering: most of the year but mainly summer–autumn.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cassinia~quinquefaria
(accessed 7 January, 2021)
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