Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Stackhousia nuda

Flowering stems. Photographer Richard Hartland, Marlo, Vic?

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Morton National Park

Common name

Wiry stackhousia

Family

Celastraceae

Where found

Moist heath  and peaty swamps. Coastal north of Lake Tabourie, and south of Eden. Ranges and the eastern part of the tablelands north of Lake Tabourie.

Notes

Broom-like perennial herb to 1 m high, hairless. Stems striate, wiry. Leaves alternating up the stems, reduced to scales to 0.15 cm long. Flowers yellow to yellow-green, tubular, the tube 2–3.3 mm long; with 5 lobes 1–2.1 mm long. Flowers in clusters of 1–4, forming an interrupted one-sided spike. Flowers Spring to Autumn.

Family Stackhousiaceae in PlantNET.

Rare Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Stackhousia~nuda  (accessed 27 April 2021)