Cassinia maritima
Orchard Coast CassiniaErect shrub (0.3–)1.0–3.0 m high; branchlets with dense spreading aculeate hairs bearing glandular tips when young and few embedded cottony hairs, very viscid. Leaves semierect to spreading, sessile, terete, 25–40(–45) mm long, 0.8–0.9 mm wide, smooth and viscid above, dense white cottony hairs beneath except for midrib, apex mucronate with mucro reflexed up to 90˚, margins revolute to midrib. Inflorescences hemispherical or corymbose, 50–120 mm diam. Capitula several hundred, white becoming yellow-brown to green at the base, rarely straw-coloured, conical, 4.5–5 mm long, 2–3 mm wide; involucral bracts 15–20, 5-ranked, innermost with lamina deltoid, 1.5–2 mm long, erect, white; lamina margin entire, incurved. Receptacle bracts usually 3. Florets 4–6. Cypsela cylindric, 1.0–1.2 mm long, with scattered globular hairs; pappus bristles 3.5–4.0 mm long. Flowers Jan.–Mar.
GipP, EGL, EGU, Strz. An understorey shrub of scrub and open forest within 20 km of the coast east of Tamboon Inlet.
Plants from the Benedore River mouth are unusual for this species in lacking resin on the young stems (Orchard 2004b). Previously included under Cassinia uncata (see note under C. complanata).
SpinningOrchard, A.E. (2004b). A revision of Cassinia (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) in Australia. 2. Sections Complanatae and Venustae. Australian Systematic Botany 17: 505–533.
