Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Astrotricha latifolia
Common name
Broad-leaved starhair
Family
Araliaceae
Where found
Wet forest or rainforest margins. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands. Occasional elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 9 m high. Younger branches stellate hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, 8–22 cm long, 20–80 mm wide, sometimes peltate, upper surface smooth, rich mid-green, sometimes shiny; lower surface with a close, thin covering of hairs, the reticulate veins evident through the hairs; margins sometimes slightly wavy. Flowers small, with 5 petals, yellowish green to cream. Petals turned back. Flower clusters to about 30 cm long. Flowers Spring to Summer.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Astrotricha~latifolia (accessed 4 January, 2021)
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