Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Aphanopetalum resinosum
Common name
Gum vine
Family
Aphanopetalaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and along streams. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.
Notes
Straggling shrub or climber to 5 m high. Stems 4-angled, hairless, with raised lenticels. Leaves opposite each other, 3-10 cm long, 15–40 mm wide, green and glossy, lower surface paler, margins scalloped to toothed. Flowers clove-scented. Flowers with 0 or 4 petals, and 4 petal-like sepals. Petals, if present, cream, 1–3 mm long, Sepals greenish white to pale green, sometimes tinged reddish, 5–12 mm long. Flowers single or in few-flowered clusters. Flowers Spring.
Family was Cunoniaceae.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Aphanopetalum~resinosum (accessed 3 January, 2021)
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