Cassinia complanata, commonly known as smooth cassinia,[1] 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 complanata is an erect or semi-erect shrub that typically grows to a height of, its branches sticky and densely covered with glandular hairs. The leaves are narrow linear to needle-shaped, long and wide, with sticky, cottony hairs on the lower surface. The flower heads are long and in diameter, each with five or six florets surrounded by five overlapping whorls of white involucral bracts. The heads are arranged in a corymb in diameter. Flowering occurs in January and February and the achenes are long with a bristly pappus about long.
Cassinia complanata was first formally described in 1928 by John McConnell Black in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.[2] [3] The specific epithet (complanata) means "levelled" or "flattened".[4]
This cassinia grows in woodland and mallee in Victoria, from the Big Desert and Little Desert areas to the Grampians, and in south-eastern South Australia .