''Cassinia'' is a genus of about fifty-two species of flowering plants in the family

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that are native to Australia and New Zealand. Plants in the genus ''Cassinia'' are shrubs, sometimes small trees with leaves arranged alternately, and

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of white, cream-coloured, yellow or pinkish flowers surrounded by several rows of

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Description

Plants in the genus ''Cassinia'' are shrubs or small trees, sometimes with sticky foliage. The leaves are arranged alternately, the edges flat to strongly rolled under, and the flowers white to cream-coloured, yellow or pinkish, arranged in heads, the heads in cylindrical, top-shaped or bell-shaped corymbs. The heads are surrounded by several rows of usually erect, boat-shaped bracts. The

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are

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and cylindrical with five lobes and the cypselas are small and usually have a pappus of bristles.

Taxonomy

The genus ''Cassinia'' was first formally described in 1817 by Robert Brown in his book ''Observations on the Natural Family of Plants called Compositae''. Brown had previously used the name ''Cassinia'' in the second edition of the ''

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'' but the name was not validly published because no species was described. The genus was named for French botanist

Alexandre de Cassini Count Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini (9 May 1781 – 23 April 1832) was a French botanist and naturalist, who specialised in the sunflower family (Asteraceae) (then known as family Compositae). He was the youngest of five children of Jacque ...

Species list

The following is a list of species accepted by

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Cassinia accipitrum ''Cassinia accipitrum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with spreading, dark green leaves that are covered with cottony hair on the underside, and heads of y ...

'' Orchard (N.S.W.) * '' Cassinia aculeata'' (Labill.) R.Br. – dogwood, common cassinia, dolly bush (N.S.W., S.A., Tas., Vic.) * '' Cassinia × adunca'' F.Muell. (S.A.) * ''

Cassinia amoena ''Cassinia'' is a genus of about fifty-two species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae that are native to Australia and New Zealand. Plants in the genus ''Cassinia'' are shrubs, sometimes small trees with leaves arranged alternately, a ...

'' Cheeseman (N.Z.) * ''

Cassinia × amoenatorta ''Cassinia'' is a genus of about fifty-two species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae that are native to Australia and New Zealand. Plants in the genus ''Cassinia'' are shrubs, sometimes small trees with leaves arranged alternately, a ...

'' Carse (N.Z.) * '' Cassinia arcuata'' R.Br. – Chinese scrub, drooping cassinia, sifton bush (N.S.W., S.A., W.A., Vic.) * ''

Cassinia aureonitens ''Cassinia aureonitens'', commonly known as the yellow cassinia is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is a shrub with elliptic leaves and heads of yellow flowers arranged in dense c ...

'' N.A.Wakef. – yellow cassinia (N.S.W.) * ''

Cassinia cinerea ''Cassinia'' is a genus of about fifty-two species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae that are native to Australia and New Zealand. Plants in the genus ''Cassinia'' are shrubs, sometimes small trees with leaves arranged alternately, a ...

'' Orchard (Qld.) * ''

Cassinia collina ''Cassinia'' is a genus of about fifty-two species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae that are native to Australia and New Zealand. Plants in the genus ''Cassinia'' are shrubs, sometimes small trees with leaves arranged alternately, a ...

'' C.T.White (Qld.) * ''

Cassinia compacta ''Cassinia compacta'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with densely hairy stems, linear leaves and heads of yellow flowers arranged in dense corymbs. Description ''Cassin ...

'' F.Muell. (N.S.W., Qld.) * ''

Cassinia complanata ''Cassinia complanata'', commonly known as smooth cassinia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with sticky, densely hairy stems, narrow linear to cylindrical leaves an ...

'' J.M.Black – smooth cassinia (Vic., S.A.) * ''

Cassinia copensis ''Cassinia copensis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect, multi-stemmed shrub with aromatic, cylindrical leaves, and heads of creamy-white flowers arranged in a flattened c ...

'' Orchard (N.S.W., Qld.) * ''

Cassinia cunninghamii ''Cassinia cunninghamii'', commonly known as Cunninghams everlasting, is a plant native to central New South Wales in eastern Australia. Description ''Cassinia cunninghamii'' is a small shrub high with woolly stems and whitish hairs. The leaves ...

'' DC. – Cunninghams everlasting (N.S.W.) * ''

Cassinia decipiens ''Cassinia decipiens'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic central New South Wales. It is a shrub with woolly-hairy young twigs, spreading, cylindrical leaves, and heads of creamy-brown to yellowish flowers arr ...

'' Orchard (N.S.W.) * ''

Cassinia denticulata ''Cassinia denticulata'', commonly known as stiff cassinia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is a shrub with yellowish stems, finely-toothed, egg-shaped to elliptic leaves, a ...

'' R.Br. – stiff cassinia (N.S.W.) * '' Cassinia diminuta'' Orchard - dwarf cassinia (Vic.) * '' Cassinia fulvida'' Hook.f. (N.Z.) * '' Cassinia furtiva'' Orchard (N.S.W.) * '' Cassinia heleniae'' Orchard (N.S.W.) * '' Cassinia hewsoniae'' Orchard (N.S.W., A.C.T.) * ''

Cassinia laevis ''Cassinia laevis'', commonly known as cough bush, dead finish, curry bush or rosemary bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a shrub with a curry-like odour, cr ...

'' R.Br. – cough bush, dead finish (Qld., N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic.) * '' Cassinia lepschii'' Orchard (N.S.W., Qld.) * '' Cassinia leptocephala'' F.Muell. (N.S.W.) * '' Cassinia longifolia'' R.Br. – shiny cassinia (N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic.) * '' Cassinia macrocephala'' Orchard (N.S.W.) * '' Cassinia maritima'' Orchard (N.S.W., Vic.) * ''

Cassinia monticola ''Cassinia monticola'' commonly known as mountain cassinia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to mountain areas of south-eastern Australia. It is a spreading shrub with sticky, narrow linear to narrow lance-s ...

'' Orchard (N.S.W., Vic.) * '' Cassinia nivalis'' Orchard – ochre cassinia (Vic.) * '' Cassinia ochracea'' Orchard (N.S.W.) * '' Cassinia ozothamnoides'' (F.Muell.) Orchard (Vic.) * '' Cassinia petrapendula'' (Orchard) Orchard (N.S.W.) * '' Cassinia quinquefaria'' R.Br. (N.S.W., Qld., A.C.T.) * '' Cassinia retorta'' A.Cunn. ex DC. (N.Z.) * ''

Cassinia rugata ''Cassinia rugata'', commonly known as wrinkled dollybush, or wrinkled cassinia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub with hairy, slightly sticky bran ...

'' N.G.Walsh (Vic., S.A., Tas.) * '' Cassinia scabrida'' Orchard – rough cassinia (Vic.) * '' Cassinia sifton'' Orchard (W.A., S.A., N.S.W., A.C.T. (naturalised), Vic. (uncertain origin) * '' Cassinia storyi'' (Orchard) Orchard (N.S.W.) * '' Cassinia straminea'' (Benth.) Orchard (N.S.W) * '' Cassinia subtropica'' F.Muell. – bushy rosemary (Qld., N.S.W.) * '' Cassinia tegulata'' Orchard – Avenue cassinia (S.A.) * '' Cassinia telfordii'' Orchard (N.S.W.) * '' Cassinia tenuifolia'' Benth. – bully bush, killmoke (N.S.W.) * '' Cassinia tenuis'' (Orchard) Orchard (N.S.W) * '' Cassinia theodori'' F.Muell. (N.S.W.) * '' Cassinia theresae'' Orchard (N.S.W.) * '' Cassinia thinicola'' Orchard (N.S.W.) * ''

Cassinia trinerva ''Cassinia trinerva'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub or small tree with hairy stems, narrow lance-shaped leaves, and flower heads arranged in dense corymbs ...

'' N.A.Wakef. (N.S.W., Qld., Vic., Tas.) * '' Cassinia uncata'' A.Cunn. – sticky cassinia (N.S.W., S.A.) * '' Cassinia vauvilliersii'' Hook.f. (N.Z.) * ''

Cassinia venusta ''Cassinia venusta'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to a small area near the border between New South Wales and Victoria. It is an erect shrub with glandular-hairy branchlets, glossy green, needle-shaped l ...

'' Orchard (N.S.W., Vic.) * '' Cassinia wilsoniae'' Orchard (Vic., S.A.) * ''

Cassinia wyberbensis ''Cassinia'' is a genus of about fifty-two species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae that are native to Australia and New Zealand. Plants in the genus ''Cassinia'' are shrubs, sometimes small trees with leaves arranged alternately, a ...

'' Orchard (Qld.)

References

* {{Taxonbar, from=Q2702870 Asteraceae genera Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)