Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Parsonsia lanceolata

Common name

Rough Silkpod

Family

Apocynaceae

Where found

Forest and woodland. Sydney region,  lower Blue Mountains, and north.

Notes

Woody climber with twining stems to 4 m high. Older stems corky. Stems hairy to more or less hairless. Leaves opposite each other, mostly 3–10 cm long, 5–50 mm wide, very variable in shape, both surfaces hairless or with covered with short colourless hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), dull, leathery to stiff, lower surface paler, margins curved down, tips blunt, notched, or pointed, and with a small abrupt point. Flowers yellowish, tubular, with 5 lobes each about 3–4 mm long, in compact clusters of 10-50 flowers. Flowering: summer–autumn.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Parsonsia~lanceolata  (accessed 25 January, 2021)