''Cassinia quinquefaria'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with sticky, hairy foliage, linear leaves, and

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of creamy-white flowers arranged in a dense

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Description

''Cassinia quinquefaria'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of , its foliage covered with spreading glandular hairs and usually sticky. The leaves are linear, long and wide. The upper surface of the leaves is sticky, the edges are rolled under and the lower surface is covered with fine hairs. The flower heads are oblong to bell-shaped, long and wide, each with five or six creamy-white

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surrounded by four or five overlapping rows of involucral bracts. The heads are arranged in a dense, pyramid-shaped panicle long and wide. Flowering mainly occurs in summer and autumn and the achenes are about long with a pappus long.

Taxonomy and naming

''Cassinia quinquefaria'' was first formally described in 1818 by Robert Brown in the '' Transactions of the Linnean Society of London''.

Distribution and habitat

This cassinia grows in woodland and forest and is widespread in eastern New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and south-eastern Queensland.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15561038 quinquefaria Asterales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Flora of the Australian Capital Territory Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773) Plants described in 1818