Cassinia wilsoniae

Erect shrub 0.75–1.8 m high; branchlets with dense tomentose of white cottony hairs. Leaves erect to spreading, sessile, terete, 10–20(–30) mm long, 0.7 mm wide, yellow-green and glabrous or with sparse short aculeate hairs above, dense white cottony hairs below except midrib; apex acute, reflexed, without a mucro; margins strongly revolute, obscuring the lower lamina surface and typically the midrib. Inflorescences corymbose or hemispherical 2–7 cm diam. Capitula (6–)20–50, ochre-coloured, cylindric, 3.0–4.0(–4.7) mm long, 2–3 mm wide; involucral bracts 15–18, innermost lanceolate with lamina deltoid, 3.3–3.4 mm long, erect, white, margins inrolled; receptacle bracts c. 4; florets (3–)6. Cypsela cylindric, 0.5 mm long, with sparse white twin hairs throughout; pappus c. 2.6 mm long. Flowers Feb.–Apr.