Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Marsdenia suaveolens
Common name
Scented marsdenia
Family
Apocynaceae
Where found
Forest, heath, and wet gullies. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 1 m tall or slender climber. Stems hairy with short hairs with colourless hairs, becoming hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 2–9 cm long, 6–30 mm wide, thick and sometimes more or less fleshy, tips gradually pointed or blunt, margins curved down. Flowers creamy white, fragrant, 4–5 mm in diameter, tubular, with 5 lobes, in compact umbels. Flowers Spring to Summer.
Family was Asclepiadaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Marsdenia~suaveolens (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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