Plants of the Fraser Coast Region

This native shrub is commonly known as rosemary shrub.

Cassinia quinquefaria is described as a "dicot" in the Asteraceae family.

In the Queensland Nature Conservation Act it is classified as Least Concern. Under the Federal Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation Act it is not classified.

Widest leaves less than 1.5 mm wide, margins revolute. Longest leaves 22-50 mm long. Branchlets glabrous or with dense spreading (often gland-tipped) straight hairs 0.05-0.2 mm long and sparse subsessile globular hairs. Inflorescences conical; involucral bracts brown, translucent; capitula (groups of tightly packed flowers) widely spaced (KeyBase Flowering plants of Queensland: Species of Cassinia By: Bean, A.R.). 

It has been recorded in the Wide Bay district in the Queensland Herbarium Census but is not listed as occurring in the Fraser Coast region in the Atlas of Living Australia.