Cassinia longifolia

Location & distribution maps

Common name:         . . .

Conservation status: . . .

Etymology:   

• The genus was named for French botanist Alexandre de Cassini

• The specific epithet (longifolia) means "long-leaved"

Flowers

• The flower heads are 2–3 mm long and 1.0–1.5 mmwide, each with five or six creamy-white florets surrounded by three to five overlapping rows of egg-shaped involucral bracts

• The heads are arranged in a dense corymb up to 200 mm in diameter

• Flowering occurs in summer and autumn and the achenes are about 0.8 mm long with a pappus 2–3 mm long

Fruit:                            

Leaves:         

• Its foliage covered with short, glandular hairs and sticky

• The leaves are linear or oblong to narrow lance-shaped, 15–95 mm long and 2–6 mm wide on a petiole 0.5–1 mm long

• The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous, the edges curve downwards and the lower surface is covered with fine hairs

Stem & branches: 

Roots:         

Habit:        

• An erect, aromatic shrub that typically grows to a height of 1.2–2.5 m

Habitat:   

• Forest and disturbed places, especially after fire, and often on ridges

Distribution:                  

• South-eastern NSW, the ACT and is widespread and common in eastern Victoria

Additional notes:    

• Taxonomy and naming

  • Cassinia longifolia was first formally described in 1818 by Robert Brown in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassinia_longifolia (2024)