Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Lomatia silaifolia

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

Flowering branch with open pods. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer K Thaler, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Leaves. Photographer Jackie Miles, Nightcap National Park west of Mullumbimby

Flowering shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Royal Botanic Gardens Mount Annan, near Campbelltown

Common name

Crinkle Bush, Fern-leaved Lomatia, Parsley Bush

Family

Proteaceae 

Where found

Forest, woodland, heath, and cleared areas. North from Jervis Bay. Coast, ranges, and tablelands. Occasionally farther south.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high, mostly hairless. Leaf margins usually sharply toothed. Stems often glaucous. Leaves alternating up the stems, 10–35 cm long, deeply dissected or compound, the smallest segments 3–20 mm wide, lower surface more or less glaucous to densely hairy. Rachis hairless to densely rusty-hairy, bases continuing down the stems. Flowers white, almost hairless, tubular, the tube slit by the style in bud, with 4 white 'petals' about 15 mm long, splitting to the base when the flower is fully open. Flower clusters 20–30 cm long. Flowering: summer. Seeds with one wing.

Intergrades with Lomatia myricoides.

Protected NSW.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lomatia~silaifolia (accessed 24 January, 2021)