Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Stackhousia viminea
Common name
Slender stackhousia, Yellow stackhousia
Family
Celastraceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, heath, grassy areas, rocky areas, and damp sites, occasionally in swampy locations. Widespread.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.7 m high, hairless. Stems striate. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.3–5 cm long, 1–8 mm wide. Leaves at the base usually reduced to scales. Flowers greenish to yellow, sometimes reddish or red-brown on the outside, tubular, the tube 2–8 mm long, with 5 lobes 1.5–3 mm long. Flowers in well-spaced sub-clusters of 1–5 flowers at the nodes, forming cylindrical spike-like clusters. Flowering: most of the year.
Family Stackhousiaceae in PlantNET.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Stackhousia~viminea (accessed 27 April 2021)
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