Family: Asteraceae
Cassinia arcuata
Citation:
R. Br., Trans. Linn. Soc. 12:128 (1817).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Chinese scrub, sifton bush, biddy bush, drooping cassinia.
Description:
Shrub to 2 m high, with a curry-like aroma; stems erect, densely branched; branchlets cream-tomentose; leaves spreading, linear, more or less decurrent, obtuse, 2.5-10 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide; upper surface glabrous or subglabrous, green; lower surface cream-tomentose, almost wholly obscured by the revolute margins.
Inflorescence a leafless pyramidal panicle, dense to loose, erect to drooping, 3-8 cm long; involucre cylindrical, 4-seriate, c. 4 mm long; outer bracts ovate, subacute; inner bracts much longer, oblong, obtuse, entire, stramineous to pale-brown, shiny, not arranged in longitudinal ranks, ultimately spreading; florets 2 or 3.
Achenes cylindrical to ovoid, c. 0.9 mm long, pubescent; pappus bristles 22-28, 1.5-2 mm long.
Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 688.
Distribution:
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In mallee and woodland.
S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL. W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: mainly Jan. — April.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
Often forming dense stands as a colonist of overgrazed land and of disturbed soil on roadsides, abandoned mines etc.
Author:
Not yet available
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