Английская Википедия:Cassinia subtropica

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Cassinia subtropica, commonly known as bushy rosemary,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to north-eastern Australia. It is shrub with woolly-hairy stems, lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves and panicles of flower heads.

Description

Cassinia subtropica is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to Шаблон:Cvt and has grey or brown stems covered with fine, woolly hairs. The leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous and the lower surface is covered with whitish to rust-coloured hairs. The flower heads are linear to narrow bell-shaped, Шаблон:Cvt long and about Шаблон:Cvt long, each head with one or two cream-coloured to pale brown florets surrounded by about loose, overlapping involucral bracts in three or four whorls. The heads are arranged in panicles up to Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide. Flowering occurs in autumn and winter and the achenes are about Шаблон:Cvt long with a pappus of barbed hairs about Шаблон:Cvt long.[1][2]

Taxonomy and naming

Cassinia subtropica was first formally described in 1858 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by Walter Hill.[3][4]

Distribution

This cassinia grows in forest and on the edges of rainforest from north-east and central-eastern Queensland to far north-eastern New South Wales.[1][2]

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