''Cassinia decipiens'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

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and is

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central New South Wales. 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.

Description

''Cassinia decipiens'' is 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

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surrounded by overlapping, papery

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. The heads are arranged in a rounded cyme of several hundred florets. The

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are pale brown, about long with a pappus of eighteen to twenty-three barbed bristles.

Taxonomy and naming

''Cassinia decipiens'' was first formally described in 2004 by Anthony Edward Orchard in ''

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'' from specimens he collected near

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in 2004.

Distribution and habitat

This species of ''Cassinia'' grows in forest and woodland in a small area between to

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and Rylstone on the

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of New South Wales.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15561064 decipiens Asterales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Plants described in 2004