Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cassinia trinerva
Common name
Three-veined cassinia
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Forest, shrubland, roadsides and rocky sites. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 8 m high. Stems yellowish, greyish, or whitish, resinous, sticky hairy, with fine gland-tipped hairs. Older stems more sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3-12 cm long, 3–8 mm wide, upper surface hairless or slightly sticky, lower surface sticky hairy and with 3 prominent more or less parallel veins, especially at the base, tips pointed, margins flat or curved down. Flower heads white, oblong to bell shaped at maturity, 2.5–3.5 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, with 3 or 4 creamy-white florets, in a dense cluster of 300–500 flower heads 60–120 mm in diameter. Flowering: summer–autumn.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cassinia~trinerva (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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