Vascular Plants

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Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
Cassinia sifton Orchard , legitimate scientific apni APC Orchard, A.E. (21 December 2017), A revision of Cassinia (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) in Australia. 7. Cassinia subgenus Achromolaena. Australian Systematic Botany 30(4): 358-363, Figs 15, 16, 17 (map) [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "New South Wales, South-western slopes: Harden– Stockinbingal road, c. 6 km W of junction with North Berthong Road, A.E.Orchard 7504 and T.A.Orchard, 22.iii.2017 (holo: CANB787796!; iso: AD!, BM!, BRI!, CHR!, HO!, K!, NSW!, MEL!, PERTH!)."
  • Etymology: "One of the more frequently used common names for this species is ‘sifting bush’. The earliest usage traced for this name is on a specimen of 1883 (Duff 73, MEL 221139). Cambage (1902) [i.e. R.H.Cambage, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 27: 194 (1902)] used it for ‘C. theodori . . . in the Temora district’ (he misapplied the name C. theodorii to C. sifton), which he said was ‘. . .known by the name Sifting Bush. This name is suggested by the similarity of the numerous fallen florets to the ‘siftings’ which are blown away from grain by a winnowing machine’ (p. 194). The designation ‘Sifting bush’ has subsequently been corrupted to ‘Sifton bush’ in the mistaken belief that it referred to a person called Sifton...."

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