Cassinia venusta

Erect shrub 1–2 m high; branchlets with dense gland-tipped acicular hairs, slightly viscid. Leaves spreading, sessile, terete, (40–)50–70(–95) mm long, 1.0–3.0 mm wide, glossy to subglossy deep green and glabrous or with minute conical papillose hairs above, short acicular hairs except on midrib beneath, apex acute with a mucro, margins strongly revolute. Inflorescences corymbose, (2.5–)6.5–8.5 cm diam. Capitula hundreds to thousands, pale yellow-brown to green, cylindric, 4–4.5 mm long, 1–2 mm wide; involucral bracts 10–14, innermost liner-lanceolate to linear-oblanceolate with lamina narrow-triangular, c. 1.5–2 mm long, erect, flat, hyaline, margin entire to erose; receptacle bracts c. 3; florets 4 or 5. Cypsela cylindric, (0.9–)1.0–1.1 mm long, glabrous. Pappus absent.  Flowers Nov.–Feb.