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 and heads of small flowers arranged in corymbs.Description
Cassinia complanata is an erect or semi-erect shrub that typically grows to a height of, its branches sticky and densely covered with glandular hairs. The leaves are narrow linear to needle-shaped, long and wide, with sticky, cottony hairs on the lower surface. The flower heads are long and in diameter, each with five or six Glossary of [botanical terms#floret|florets] surrounded by five overlapping whorls of white involucral bracts. The heads are arranged in a corymb in diameter. Flowering occurs in January and February and the achenes are long with a bristly pappus about long.Taxonomy
Cassinia complanata was first formally described in 1928 by John McConnell Black in Transactions of the [Royal Society of South Australia]. The specific epithet means "levelled" or "flattened".Distribution and habitat
This cassinia grows in woodland and mallee in Victoria, from the Big Desert and Little Desert [National Park|Little Desert] areas to the Grampians, and in south-eastern South Australia.