Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Platysace stephensonii

Flower clusters and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer R Hotchkiss, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Stephenson's Platysace

Family

Apiaceae

Where found

Dry forest and heath, often on sandstone. Coastal in the Sydney area. Jervis Bay, and the ranges inland from Jervis Bay.

Notes

Shrub, usually to 0.5 m high. Stems bristly. Leaves crowded, 1.2–2 cm long, 5–7 mm wide; usually rough; tips pointed, rigid. Lower or all leaves deeply divided into 3 spreading lobes, upper leaves often 2-lobed or undivided. Flowers with 5 white petals, in many-flowered clusters 8.5–30 mm in diameter. Flowering: mostly December–January.

Hybrids between Platysace lanceolata and Platysace stephensonii are recorded from NSW.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Platysace~stephensonii  (accessed 22 January, 2021)