Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Harmogia densifolia

Flowers. Photographer John Tann, Royal National Park, Sydney

Flowers and seed cases. Photographer John Tann, Royal National Park, Sydney

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

Common name

None

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Dry forest and heath, often on rocky sites. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands north of Port Kembla. Old records from west of Cowra.

Notes

Shrub to 1.5 m tall. Stems flanged but not winged. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, crowded, 0.15-0.45 cm long, 0.5-0.6 mm wide, linear to cylindrical, tips usually with a minute curved point, margins entire, oil glands visible on lower surface. Flowers 6-7.5 mm in diameter, with 5 white petals, soltary, in the axils of leaves that are close together, often appearing tightly clustered. Flowers Spring to Summer.

Was Babingtonia densifolia.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Harmogia~densifolia (accessed 19 January, 2021)