Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Asterolasia rivularis

Flowering stem. 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

Common name

None

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Along streams. Ranges north from west of Wollongong to Wollemi National Park.

Notes

Shrub to 1.5 m high. Young branches grey to brown stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 1–2.5 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, tip blunt, margins slightly curved down, upper surface with scattered stellate hairs, lower surface brownish stellate-hairy. Flowers yellow, outer surface  rusty stellate-hairy, with 5 petals each about 6 mm long. Flowers in 1–3 flowered clusters.

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