Scientific Name: Cassinia rugata

Common Name: wrinkled dollybush

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Asteraceae

Threatened Species Status: Endangered

Permit: It is an offence to collect, disturb, damage or destroy this species unless under permit.

Form Description: Erect, slender, shrub; often densely multi-branched from the base.

Flowers: A hemispherical inflorescence, 3 to 12 cm in diameter, with 2 or more main branches, each supporting 20 to 300 flowerheads.

Fruit: Achenes – pale green to whitish, cylindrical.

Municipality
Latrobe
Plant Communities
Sedgeland and Wetland
Habitat Notes

Known from only one site in Tasmania on privately owned remnant wetland.

Site Tolerance

Moist, Waterlogged

Propagation Calendar

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Propagation Method
Impractical Propagation material is too difficult to collect or conditions for propagation or cultivation are too specialized.

Seed Information