Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Cassinia venusta

Stem with spent flowers. Photographer Russell Best, Burrowa-Pine Mountain National Park, Vic, east of Jingellic

Common name

A cassinia

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Dry forest in rocky areas. Cabramurra to Albury. Most records from the Victorian side of the border.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m tall. Bark on older branches red-brown, slightly flaky and glossy, with shallow longitudinal cracks and striations. Branchlets densely hairy with glandular hairs, slightly sticky. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4-9.5 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, margins usually rolled down almost to the midrib, upper surface glossy to somewhat glossy, deep green, slightly sticky, hairless or with minute wart-based hairs, lower surface more or less woolly. Flower heads pale yellow-brown to green, shiny, 4–4.5 mm long, 1–2 mm in diameter, cylindrical, with 4–7 dark yellow florets with 0 petals. bracts appressed to the flower heads pale golden brown to straw yellow, translucent. Flower heads in large flat-topped or domed clusters 25–85 mm in diameter, of hundreds to thousands of heads. Old flower clusters retained on the plant for about 12 months. Flowers Spring-Summer.

Rare Vic.

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