| Cassinia lepschii | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Cassinia |
| Species: | C. lepschii |
| Binomial name | |
| Cassinia lepschii | |
Cassinia lepschii is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with densely hairy young stems, needle-shaped leaves and flower heads arranged in flat or rounded corymbs.
Cassinia lepschii is an erect or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.7–2.0 m (2 ft 4 in – 6 ft 7 in), its young stems densely covered with cottony hairs. The leaves are cylindrical, 7–18 mm (0.28–0.71 in) long and about 1.0 mm (0.039 in) wide. The edges of the leaves are rolled under and the lower surface of the leaves is densely covered with cottony hairs. The flower heads are arranged in flat or rounded corymbs of 25 to 400 heads, each head with four or five cream-coloured florets surrounded by overlapping involucral bracts. Flowering occurs from March to June and the achenes are brown with a bristly pappus of 18 to 21 bristles. [2]
Cassinia lepschii was first formally described in 2005 by Anthony Edward Orchard in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected in Single National Park in 2003. [3]
This species of Cassinia grows in forest, shrubland and woodland on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales and in south-east Queensland. [2]
Cassinia tenuifolia, commonly known as bully bush or killmoke, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Lord Howe Island. It is a dense, bushy shrub with hairy young stems, crowded linear leaves and sweetly scented flower heads arranged in corymbs.
Cassinia compacta is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with densely hairy stems, linear leaves and heads of yellow flowers arranged in dense corymbs.
Cassinia trinerva is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub or small tree with hairy stems, narrow lance-shaped leaves, and flower heads arranged in dense corymbs.
Cassinia hewsoniae is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is native to New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. It is an erect shrub with a sticky, densely-hairy stems, needle-shaped leaves and flower heads arranged in flat or rounded corymbs.
Cassinia maritima commonly known as coast cassinia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to coastal areas of south-eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with glandular hairs embedded in a sticky layer on its branches and leaves, needle-shaped leaves, and white to yellowish heads of flowers arranged in a flat-topped corymb.
Cassinia monticola commonly known as mountain cassinia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to mountain areas of south-eastern Australia. It is a spreading shrub with sticky, narrow linear to narrow lance-shaped leaves, and bronze-coloured to greenish-cream heads of flowers arranged in a dense, round-topped corymb.
Cassinia ochracea is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern New South Wales. It is an erect or spreading shrub with hairy stems, needle-shaped leaves and flat or rounded corymbs of up to four hundred flower heads.
Cassinia telfordii is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy young stems, linear leaves and corymbs of up to several hundred yellow to cream-coloured flower heads.
Cassinia straminea is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy young stems, linear leaves and corymbs of up to several hundred flower heads.
Cassinia theresae is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to central New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with hairy young stems, needle-shaped leaves with flared bases, and corymbs of up to fifty flower heads.
Cassinia accipitrum is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with spreading, dark green leaves that are covered with cottony hair on the underside, and heads of yellowish brown flowers arranged in rounded cymes.
Cassinia diminuta, commonly known as dwarf cassinia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Victoria in Australia. It is a small, erect, aromatic shrub with spreading, needle-shaped leaves that are covered with cottony hair on the underside, and corymbs of up to two hundred heads of flowers arranged in corymbs.
Cassinia complanata, commonly known as smooth cassinia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with sticky, densely hairy stems, narrow linear to cylindrical leaves and heads of small flowers arranged in corymbs.
Cassinia heleniae is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to a small area in northern New South Wales. It is a shrub with a few sticky stems, sticky needle-shaped leaves and flower heads arranged in a rounded to flat-topped cyme.
Cassinia nivalis commonly known as ochre cassinia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern Victoria, Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy, deep reddish-purple branches, hairy, needle-shaped leaves, and cream-coloured to ochre heads of flowers arranged in a hemispherical corymb.
Cassinia ozothamnoides, commonly known as cottony haeckeria, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Victoria, Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy branchlets, linear leaves and corymbs of up to two hundred flower heads.
Cassinia rugata, commonly known as wrinkled dollybush, or wrinkled cassinia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub with hairy, slightly sticky branchlets, oblong to narrow elliptic leaves and corymbs of up to three hundred flower heads.
Cassinia scabrida commonly known as rough cassinia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to forests with rocky granite outcrops in north-eastern Victoria, Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy foliage, linear leaves, and large numbers of greenish-white heads of flowers arranged in dense corymbs.
Cassinia wilsoniae is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to a small area near the border between South Australia and Victoria. It is an erect shrub with densely hairy branchlets, needle-shaped leaves, and corymbs of twenty to fifty ochre-coloured flower heads.
Cassinia thinicola is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to coastal New South Wales. It is a compact shrub with hairy young stems, needle-shaped to slightly flattened leaves, and corymbs of up to 150 flower heads.