Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Leionema dentatum

Common name

Toothed phebalium

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Forest. Ranges north from Deua National Park.

Notes

Tree or shrub to 6 m high. Stems more or less cylindrical. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 4–8 cm long, 1–8 mm wide, tips squared off to notched and 2-toothed, margins curved to rolled down or more or less toothed, lower surface white stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), midrib prominent. Flowers with 5 petals each about 3.5 mm long, pale yellow to white, gland-dotted, hairless. Flowers in clusters of about 10 flowers. Flowering: spring.

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