Cassinia arcuata

Odourless or slightly aromatic small tree or more often a shrub, 1.0–2.0(–4.0) m high; branchlets with a dense but loosely cottony, sometimes with occasional emergent multicellular hairs. Leaves spreading, sessile, linear, (2.5–)5–10(–12) mm long, 0.7 mm wide, sparsely cottony becoming glabrous and shining above, cottony beneath, apex rounded with a reflexed apiculum, margins revolute. Inflorescence pyramidal, c. 1.5–8 cm long, 1–5 cm wide. Capitula c. 100–200, yellowish-green or greenish-bronze when fresh, drying white, aging to ochre, narrowly cylindrical in bud, becoming obconical at maturity, 3.5–4.0 mm long, c. 1 mm wide; involucral bracts 13–18, innermost with brown stereome and clear hyaline with an opaque white tip, often with incurved margins; florets (2 or) 3. Cypsela cylindric, 0.8–1.0 mm long, sparsely papillose; pappus bristles 2–3 mm long, apex tapering. Flowers (Sep.) Mar.–May.