Cassinia

Spreading to erect shrubs and small trees; young stems and inflorescences viscid or not, glabrous to tomentose. Leaves alternate, subsessile or petiolate; lamina not recurved to strongly revolute, sometimes mucronate. Inflorescences corymbose, pyramidal or of compact clusters. Capitula cylindric, turbinate or campanulate, white, cream, yellow or pinkish; involucral bracts in several series, boat-shaped, usually erect; receptacle bract(s) present or absent; female florets absent; bisexual florets tubular, 5-lobed, anthers tailed at base; style branches truncate, papillose. Cypselas glabrous or glandular-papillose, with or without persistent pappus.