''Cassinia maritima'' commonly known as coast cassinia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to coastal areas of south-eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with glandular hairs embedded in a sticky layer on its branches and leaves, needle-shaped leaves, and white to yellowish

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of flowers arranged in a flat-topped corymb.

Description

''Cassinia maritima'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of , its foliage covered with glandular hairs embedded in a sticky layer. The leaves are needle-shaped, long and wide with a curved tip. The upper surface of the leaves is sticky, the edges rolled under and the lower surface densely hairy. The flower heads are long and wide and white to yellowish, the

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surrounded by five overlapping rows of involucral bracts. The heads are arranged in groups of several hundred in a flat-topped corymb in diameter. Flowering occurs from January to March and the achenes are long with a pappus of twelve to sixteen bristles.

Taxonomy and naming

''Cassinia maritima'' was first formally described in 2004 by Anthony Edward Orchard in '' Australian Systematic Botany'' from specimens collected by near the

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in 2004. The

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(''maritima'') means "growing by the sea".

Distribution and habitat

Coast cassinia grows in the shrub layer of scrub and forest in near-coastal areas from

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in south-eastern New South Wales to far far north-eastern Victoria.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15560373 maritima Asterales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Victoria (state) Plants described in 2004