Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cassinia compacta
Common name
Tall Cassinia, Bushy Cassinia
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and rocky ridges. Ranges and tablelands north of Fitzroy Falls.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m high. Stems yellowish with dense glandular hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–7 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, upper surface sticky and dark and shiny, or rough with prominent warts and stiff glandular hairs, lower surface with minute or prominent glandular hairs, tips mucronate but not hooked, margins curved down. Flower heads golden brown, about 4 mm long, about 2 mm in diameter, with 5 or 6 yellow florets, in dense clusters to 120 mm in diameter. Flowering: spring–summer.
PlantNET description with line drawing and photos: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cassinia~compacta (accessed 9 April 2021)
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