About Cassinia subtropica F.Muell.
Cassinia subtropica is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in). It has grey or brown stems covered in fine, woolly hairs. Its leaves range from lance-shaped to egg-shaped, between 10–30 mm (0.39–1.18 in) long and 3–7 mm (0.12–0.28 in) wide. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous, while the lower surface is covered with whitish to rust-coloured hairs. The flower heads are linear to narrow bell-shaped, 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) long and about 1.0 mm (0.039 in) wide. Each flower head holds one or two cream-coloured to pale brown florets, surrounded by loose, overlapping involucral bracts arranged in three or four whorls. The flower heads are grouped into panicles that grow up to 100 mm (3.9 in) long and 60 mm (2.4 in) wide. Flowering occurs during autumn and winter. The achenes produced by this species are about 0.6 mm (0.024 in) long, and have a pappus of barbed hairs around 2 mm (0.079 in) long. This species of Cassinia grows in forest and on the edges of rainforest, across a range extending from north-eastern and central-eastern Queensland to far north-eastern New South Wales.
