Cassinia retorta A.Cunn. ex DC.
Details
Cassinia retorta A.Cunn. ex DC., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 6, 154 (1838)
Nomenclature
A.Cunn. ex DC.
DC.
1838
154
ICN
Cassinia retorta A.Cunn. ex DC.
species
Cassinia retorta
Classification
Descriptions
Cassinia retorta A.Cunn. ex DC.
Shrub up to 5 m. tall; branchlets stout, white-tomentose. Lvs 2-5 × 1-2 mm., c. linear-oblong to narrow-obovate, margins revolute; lamina rather strongly recurved from erect short petiole, coriac., becoming glab. above, beneath clad in dense white tomentum, (sts yellowish). Capitula 3-10 or more in small corymbs, on short pedicels; phyll. in 3-4 series, tomentose on back, inner with short white tips; forming a turbinate involucre 4-7 mm. long, up to 9 mm. diam. Scales of receptacle ∞, with erect white tips; florets 10-20. Achenes c. 1 mm. long, glab.; pappus-hairs up to 3·5 mm. long, slender, hardly or not thickened at tips.
Taxonomic concepts
Cassinia retorta A.Cunn. ex DC.
Cassinia retorta A.Cunn. ex DC.
Cassinia retorta A.Cunn. ex DC.
Cassinia retorta A.Cunn. ex DC.
Metadata
b7405359-85b9-4591-a6d1-66122d234d0e
scientific name
Names_Plants
24 June 2002
1 June 2006