Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Orianthera pusilla
Common name
Tiny Logania
Family
Loganiaceae
Where found
Dry forest and heath. Coast, ranges, and occasionally on the tablelands north east of Burra.
Notes
Herb or sprawling shrub to about 0.15 m high. Branches with 2 longitudinal ridges. Leaves opposite each other, 0.6–1.2 cm long, 3–6 mm wide, tips blunt to pointed; bases somewhat continuing down the stems; margins slightly rolled down; lower surface smooth. Male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers white, 4–8 mm long, tubular, the tube 3–4.8 mm long, with 5 lobes shorter than the tube. Flowers single. Flowering: spring.
Was Logania pusilla.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Orianthera~pusilla (accessed 6 March 2021)
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