Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Leionema ceratogynum

Common name

None

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

On or near ridgelines. Wadbilliga National Park west of Cobargo, at altitudes over about 1000 m.

Notes

Shrub to about 2.5 m high. Branchlets strongly ridged when young, stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 0.8-3 cm long, 1.3–2.5 mm wide, tips pointed to blunt, upper surface somewhat rough and somewhat warty from raised oil-glands, usually hairless or with very sparse, scattered stellate hairs, lower surface smooth, white stellate-hairy, margins rolled down. Flowers with 5 pale yellow petals each 4.5–5 mm long, gland-dotted. Flowers single or in clusters of 3 flowers.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leionema~ceratogynum  (accessed 22 January, 2021)