Cassinia scabrida
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| Rough cassinia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Cassinia |
| Species: | C. scabrida |
| Binomial name | |
| Cassinia scabrida | |
Cassinia scabrida commonly known as rough cassinia,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, and is endemic north-eastern Victoria, where it grows in forests with rocky granite outcrops. It is an erect shrub with hairy foliage, linear leaves, and many greenish-white heads of flowers arranged in dense corymbs.
Cassinia scabrida is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in), its branches covered with cottony and glandular hairs. The leaves are linear, 55–65 mm (2.2–2.6 in) long and 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) wide, the edges rolled under. The flower heads are 4.2–4.5 mm (0.17–0.18 in) long, pale greenish white, each head with four or five creamy-white florets surrounded by ten to fifteen overlapping involucral bracts. The heads are arranged in groups of hundred to thousands in corymbs 95–115 mm (3.7–4.5 in) in diameter. Flowering occurs from November to February and the achenes are 1.0–1.2 mm (0.039–0.047 in) long, usually lacking a pappus.[2]