Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Muehlenbeckia gracillima
Common name
Slender Lignum
Family
Polygonaceae
Where found
Forest and along streams. Coastal. Ranges north from Deua National Park.
Notes
Slender twiner, stems to 2 m long or more, often sprawling. Fruit sometimes fleshy. Stems longitudinally striate, hairless or with scattered warts, green to red-brown. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–12 cm long, 10–55 mm wide, tips long-pointed, surfaces mostly minutely and irregularly white-rough, margins finely and irregularly frilly. Male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers yellow-green, with 5 'petals', each 1–2 mm long, free from each other almost to the base. Female flowers slightly longer at the seeding stage but remaining membranous. Flowers in small clusters within very slender, interrupted, spike-like, often branched, clusters 4–15 cm long. Flowers mostly Nov.–Mar.
Endangered Vic. Listed in Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Muehlenbeckia~gracillima (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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