Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Asterolasia buckinghamii

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer M Phillips, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

None

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Damp sites. Sporadic on the ranges and tablelands north from near Bundanoon to near Lithgow. Tablelands south of Lake Wyangala south east of Cowra.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 0.4–1 cm long, 3–6 mm wide, tips rounded to more or less notched, margins slightly curved down, upper surface with scattered stellate hairs, lower surface stellate-hairy. Flowers yellow, outer surface rusty stellate-hairy, with 5 petals each 5–6 mm long. Flowers single. Flowers spring.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Asterolasia~buckinghamii (accessed 4 January, 2021)