''Cassinia trinerva'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub or small tree with hairy stems, narrow lance-shaped leaves, and flower heads arranged in dense corymbs.

Description

''Cassinia trinerva'' is an erect shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of up to about , its branchlets sticky and covered with glandular and cottony hairs. The leaves are narrow lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long with three longitudinal veins. The upper surface of the leaves is slightly sticky and the lower surface is cottony-hairy. The flower heads are long and wide with three or four white florets surrounded by fourteen to eighteen

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in three to five whorls. The heads are crowded in dense corymbs in diameter. Flowering occurs from December to March and the achenes are long with a pappus long.

Taxonomy and naming

''Cassinia trinerva'' was first formally described in 1951 by Norman Arthur Wakefield in ''

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Distribution

This cassinia is an understorey shrub in tall forests, on the edge of rainforest and on dry rocky sites. It occurs in south-eastern Queensland, on the coast and tablelands of New South Wales south from

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, in south-eastern Victoria and north-eastern Tasmania.

References

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