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Cassinia macrocephala

Cassinia macrocephala
Photo: Ian McMaster, CC BY 3.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
New South Wales

About

Cassinia macrocephala is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to northern New South Wales. It is a shrub with narrow linear leaves and spherical, white to cream-coloured or yellowish-green heads.

Where it grows

This species of Cassinia grows on granite soils in forest in New South Wales. Subspecies macrocaphala occurs on the Northern Tablelands, subsp. petrapendula is only found in a restricted area near Nundle, and subsp. storyi is only known from the type location near Coolah Tops and subsp. tenuis near Inverell.

Other Cassinia plants

Cassinia accipitrum · Australian Tauhinu · Cassinia adunca · Chineseshrub · Yellow Cassinia · Cassinia compacta · Cassinia complanata · Cassinia copensis · Cunninghams Everlasting · Cassinia decipiens · Stiff Cassinia · Dwarf Cassinia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cassinia macrocephala by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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