Cassinia tegulata
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| Avenue 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. tegulata |
| Binomial name | |
| Cassinia tegulata | |
Cassinia tegulata commonly known as avenue cassinia,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to a small area near the Victoria-South Australia border. It is a small to medium-sized shrub with hairy foliage, needle-shaped leaves, and dense heads of off-white to cream-coloured flowers arranged in corymbs.
Cassinia tegulata is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.5–1.6 m (1 ft 8 in – 5 ft 3 in), its branches covered with woolly hairs when young. The leaves are narrow linear to needle-shaped, 15–35 mm (0.59–1.38 in) long and 1.0–1.5 mm (0.039–0.059 in) wide, the edges rolled under. The flower heads are 4.5–5.3 mm (0.18–0.21 in) long, off-white to cream-coloured, each head with four or five florets surrounded by about twenty-five overlapping involucral bracts in five whorls. The heads are arranged in groups of 100 to 150 in corymbs 20–70 mm (0.79–2.76 in) in diameter. Flowering occurs from February to April and the achenes are about 1.3 mm (0.051 in) long, with a pappus 2.0–2.5 mm (0.079–0.098 in) long.[2][3][4]
Taxonomy and naming
Cassinia tegulata was first formally described in 2004 by Anthony Edward Orchard in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected near Narracoorte in 2004.[5]