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Cassinia retorta A.Cunn. ex DC.

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A.Cunn. ex DC.
DC.
1838
154
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Cassinia retorta A.Cunn. ex DC.
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Cassinia retorta

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retorta

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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.

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Cassinia retorta A.Cunn. ex DC.
Cassinia retorta A.Cunn. ex DC.
Cassinia retorta A.Cunn. ex DC.
Cassinia retorta A.Cunn. ex DC.
Cassinia retorta A.Cunn. ex DC.
Cassinia retorta A.Cunn. ex DC.

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24 June 2002
1 June 2006
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