Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Cassinia denticulata

Flower clusters and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Gardens of Stone National Park near Lithgow

Common name

Stiff cassinia

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Dry forest. Coast, ranges, and tablelands, north from the ranges west of Ulladulla.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Stems yellowish with loose glandular hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.8–2.5 cm long, usually 3–6 mm wide, bases slightly stem-clasping or cordate, margins toothed, especially towards the tips, upper surface dark green and sticky and shiny, lower surface pale and mealy, to rusty with a matted and sticky tomentum of glandular and woolly hairs. Flower heads whitish, oval to globular, 2–4 mm long, 2–4 mm in diameter, with 10–14 pale yellow florets, in dense clusters 20–100 mm in diameter. Flowering: spring to early summer.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cassinia~denticulata
(accessed 7 January, 2021)