Cassinia decipiens is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic central New South Wales, Australia. It is a shrub with woolly-hairy young twigs, spreading, cylindrical leaves, and heads of creamy-brown to yellowish flowers arranged in a rounded cyme.
Cassinia decipiens is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has woolly-hairy young twigs and flaky, reddish-brown bark on older branches. The leaves spread at 90° to the stem and are cylindrical long and about wide with the edges rolled under. The upper surface of the leaves is glossy dark green and the lower surface is hidden by the rolled edges. The flower heads are about long, each with creamy-brown to yellowish florets surrounded by overlapping, papery involucral bracts. The heads are arranged in a rounded cyme of several hundred florets. The achenes are pale brown, about long with a pappus of eighteen to twenty-three barbed bristles.[1]
Cassinia decipiens was first formally described in 2004 by Anthony Edward Orchard in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens he collected near Rylstone in 2004.[2]
This species of Cassinia grows in forest and woodland in a small area between to Goulburn River and Rylstone on the Central Western Slopes of New South Wales.[1]