Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Darwinia grandiflora
Common name
A Darwinia
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, and shrubland. Coast and ranges mostly between the Illawarra Highway and the South Western Motorway.
Notes
Shrub, prostrate with stems to 2.5m long, to 0.5 m tall. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, 0.8-1.8 cm long, 0.6-2.2 mm wide, hairless. Flowers with 5 sepals 1.5-2 mm long, and 5 curved petals about 1.4-1.8 mm long, at the top of the floral tube. Floral tube 7-12 mm long, at first white, soon becoming dark red. Style 12-20 mm long, dark red. Each flower surrounded by 2 yellow-green or yellow-brown bracteoles 4-8 mm long, which persist after the flowers open. Flowers in clusters of 4-6, arranged in pairs. Flowers Winter.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Darwinia~grandiflora (accessed 9 January, 2021)
Additional information in Briggs, B.G. (1962) The New South Wales Species of Darwinia. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium. 3(3): 139-140
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