Cassinia complanata

Erect or semierect shrub (0.2–)0.9–1.5(–2.0) m high; branchlets with moderately dense spreading multicellular hairs, viscid. Leaves semierect to spreading, sessile, narrowly linear to terete, (6–)9–40(–50) mm long, 0.75–1 mm wide, glabrous or with sparse to moderately dense short aculeate hairs above, dense white cottony hairs matted with yellowish resin beneath, apex tapering to an acute uncinate point, margins revolute to midrib. Inflorescences corymbose, 0.5–4 cm diam. Capitula 30–120(–400), white with greenish base, 5-angled, conical, 3.3–4.2(–5.0) mm long, c. 2–3 mm wide. Involucral bracts 15–25, 5-ranked, innermost with lamina deltoid, 1.5–2 mm long, erect, white; lamina margin entire, incurved. Receptacle bracts 1–4. Florets 5 or 6 (rarely 7). Cypsela oblong to obconical, (0.8–)0.9–1.1 mm long, glabrous or with sparse subsessile globular hairs (mainly towards apex); pappus bristles c. 2 mm long. Flowers Jan.–Feb.