Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Print Fact Sheet

Notelaea neglecta

Common name

None

Family

Oleaceae

Where found

Dry forest. Ranges and eastern edge of the tablelands north from Bungonia Gorge.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high, or possibly a small tree. Branchlets hairy with fine hairs to hairless. Buds at the bases of the leaves 1 or 2, pointed, hairy with fine hairs. Leaves opposite each other, 2.5–10 cm long, 2–14 mm wide, tips elongated, very pointed, margins entire, surfaces more or less hairy when young, venation more or less obscure except the midrib. Flowers with 4 yellow petals 1.5–2.5 mm long, more or less free from each other except joined in 2 pairs at the base. Flower clusters 7–9-flowered. Flowering: spring. Fruit oval to round, 5–6 mm long, 4–5 mm wide.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Notelaea~neglecta  (accessed 23 January, 2021)