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Cassinia heleniae - profile

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Scientific name: Cassinia heleniae
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Commonwealth status: Endangered
Gazetted date: 09 Aug 2024
Profile last updated: 07 May 2026

Description

Erect to spreading shrub to 3 m high, usually branched, younger stems sometimes glabrescent and purplish on sunward surfaces.

Leaves narrow-elliptic to oblong-elliptic, usually 4–15 cm long, 0.3–2.6 cm wide with breadth variable in different forms, apex acute or rarely narrow-obtuse; margins entire; upper surface smooth, lateral veins sometimes evident, reticulum usually obscure; lower surface with a dense indumentum, the midvein and usually lateral veins evident in relief; petiole 4–14 mm long.

Inflorescence either to 25 cm long and hairy throughout with the pale stem surfaces obscured, or to 60 cm long and glabrescent with the axes variably purplish beneath the indumentum. Petals white to cream.

Fruit not winged.

Distribution

Confined to a small area around Torrington in the north western slopes of New South Wales.

Habitat and ecology

  • Cassinia heleniae grows on podzolic soils of coarse granite derived sand, or sandy loam over granite (Orchard 2005) at elevations of 900–1160 m above sea level. Cassinia heleniae is found in association with stringybark forest and/or Eucalyptus andrewsii (New England blackbutt) shrubby forest, with a dense understory of Acacia torringtonensis, Persoonia tenuifolia (fine-leaf geebung), Styphelia sp., Leucopogon melaleucoides, Leptospermum sp., Brachyloma saxicola, Mirbelia speciosa, Callitris sp. and Melichrus sp.

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