Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Lomatia myricoides

Common name

River Lomatia, Mountain Beech, Long-leaf Lomatia

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, wet gullies, and along streams. Widespread.

Notes

Shrub or small tree to 8 m high. Young stems sparsely hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 5–20 cm long, 5–20 mm wide, hairless or almost so, lower surface paler, margins entire or coarsely toothed, tips pointed. Flowers greenish yellow to cream or white, 10-25 mm long, tubular, the tube slit by the style in bud, with 4 'petals' splitting to the base when the flower is fully open. Flowers paired, in clusters 5–10 cm long, usually shorter than the leaves, sometimes slightly exceeding them. Flowering: summer. Seeds with one wing.

Intergrades with Lomatia fraseri, Lomatia ilicifolia, and Lomatia silaifolia.

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=Lomatia~myricoides (accessed 24 January, 2021)